The Hidden Frontier : Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley

John W Cole; Eric R Wolf
University of California Press
 9780520216815
0-520-21681-4

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 books innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villagesthe German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tretonly a mile apart in the same mountain valley.