[Review] The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley (John W. Cole) Summarized.

[Review] The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley (John W. Cole) Summarized.
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[Review] The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley (John W. Cole) Summarized.

May 23 2026 | 00:07:57

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Episode • May 23, 2026 • 00:07:57

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The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley (John W. Cole)

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#GermanicRomanceculturalboundary #Alpineculturalecology #Hofinheritancesystem #dispersedandnucleatedsettlement #NonValleyethnicity #TheHiddenFrontier

The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley is a classic anthropological and ethnographic study by John W. Cole and Eric R. Wolf, first published in 1974 and later reissued by University of California Press. The book examines two neighboring communities in the Non Valley of the Tyrol region, St. Felix and Tret, which lie close to one another and share similar Alpine ecological conditions but differ sharply in language, settlement form, inheritance practice, and social orientation. Its central purpose is to show that environment alone cannot explain cultural organization. Instead, ecological life is mediated by ethnicity, history, political boundaries, kinship systems, and inherited ideas about land and community. By comparing a German-speaking village with an Italian-speaking village, Cole and Wolf use a small Alpine setting to illuminate a much larger divide between Germanic and Romance Europe. The result is a focused study of how cultural frontiers persist within shared landscapes.

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