The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley

By John W. Cole and Eric R. Wolf

Book Overview

This award-winning classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book's innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages-the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret-only a mile apart in the same mountain valley.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520216814
• ISBN13: 9780520216815
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"