Shaping Modern Times in Rural France: The Transformation and Reproduction of an Aveyronnais Community - Softcover

"Roger's own research leads to considerable theoretical and methodological insights and she successfully discredits at least two uses of history in anthropological research... [This book] is a fascinating, first-rate, scholarly enterprise."-- French Review

'This book is a refreshing analysis of cultural change that demonstrates the resilience of cultural forms. It is engagingly written and fits well into current debates about the nature of the intersection between anthropology and history, about the way people perceive the relationship between the past and the present, and about individual agency in social action. Rogers's conclusion that the modern world is no more homogeneous than the world peopled by subsistence agriculturalists is extremely powerful and amply demonstrated.'--Caroline Brettell, Southern Methodist University