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Article: From Duty to Desire: Remaking Families in a Spanish Village
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- Anthropological Quarterly
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- January 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Catholic University of America Press Jan 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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From Duty to Desire: Remaking Families in a Spanish Village. JANE FISHBURNE COLLIER. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997; 264 pp.
Jane Fishburne Collier is to be commended for having confronted a number of difficult theoretical and methodological issues in this impressive ethnography about the making of modern subjectivity in the Andalusian village pseudonymously called "Los Olivos." An unusual feature of this ethnography is the extent to which Collier had access to, and makes wonderful use of, the fieldnotes and personal memories of not only herself and George Collier but also of other foreign anthropologists who worked in Los Olivos during the 1960s. These anthropologists ...