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A vida no campoÁlvaro Domingues

Vida no campo

Lisbon: Dafne (2012), pp. 319, ISBN 978-989-8217-19-6

From the blurb:

Vida no campo is not just one, it is many windows that are open at the same time. With the stable nexus that reveals the film-narrative of rural reality being lost, the actual context of change expands to infinity the representation of rurality: the post- and the neo-, the de-ruralisation. The reading of the rural is redistributed and dissipated in many spheres, or is condensed and fantasised. It is impossible to keep all of the windows open and it is from this that a crisis of direction is born

Contents:

  • O voo do arado
  • Desruralização
  • A agricultura enquanto economia
  • O rural enquanto cultura e moda de vida
  • O mosaico do mundo rural
  • Os temas difíceis da desruralização
  • Vernacular
  • Populares, camponsese, eruditos e massificados
  • Crónicas da boa e velha ruralidade