Books by Marc Abeles

An argument that in the era of globalization, survival-outlasting the uncertainties and threats of a precarious future-has supplanted harmonious coexistence as the primary goal of politics.

This ethnographic study of political life in the department of the Yonne, in the Burgundy region, explores a still richly Balzacian provincial world. The author, a French anthropologist, has extensive field experience in Ethiopia. Drawing on local history, interviews and participant observation, Abeles develops a fresh perspective on political life in France.