Includes bibliographical references and index.

As locals leave traditional rural lives for jobs in cities, they are replaced by a variety of incomers, including neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists and rural labour migrants from beyond the EU. This book provides a fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic, the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today.

Alternative countrysides : anthropology and rural West Europe today / Jeremy MacClancy -- A 'private place'? : changing meanings of the country side in northern Italy / Jaro Stacul -- Environmental attitudes, community development, and local politics in Ireland / Paul Collinson -- Ethnic identity, power, compromise, and territory : 'locals' and 'Moroccans' in the Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux vineyards / Chantal Crenn -- The new rural residents : emerging sociabilities in Alava, Basque Country / Josetxu Martínez Montoya -- Farms, flats, and villas : senses of country living in a Basque-speaking village / Kepa Fernández de Larrinoa -- The recuperation of Galician pottery : craft professions, cultural policies, and identity / Elena Freire Paz -- Fear and loving in the west of Ireland : the blows of County Clare / Jeremy MacClancy.

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