Table of Contents

1. The idea of a village; 2. Elmdon families and the core; 3. Elmdon as a community; 4. Employment; 5. Where and how one lives; 6. Help and dependancy: kinship in practice; 7. Ideas about relatedness; 8. Marriage and the significance of outsiders; 9. The real village.

Promotional Information

This book takes the idea of 'village' not for granted, but as a dogma to be accounted for.