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The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley is a classic study of ethnography, published in 1974 by John W. Cole and Eric R. Wolf.. The authors studied two Alpine villages in the Non Valley of the Tyrol region, St. Felix and Tret (part of Fondo municipality), only a mile apart and showed that in spite of identical ecological conditions, there were significant cultural ...
On the Black Sea coast, near the border with Georgia, Turkey’s Rize province is home to unspoilt mountain villages offering historic buildings, traditional food, and a laidback summer lifestyle.
Here are six atmospheric mountain spots where skiers can enjoy an authentic alpine experience and still access Europe’s skiing superhighways. The beautiful villages with back doors into Europe ...
Miners' Village, Glendalough, County Wicklow was a small village based around a galena mine. The village was largely inhabited from 1825 to 1957 when the mine closed permanently. Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, was evacuated in 1953 after being repeatedly cut off from the mainland due to poor weather. Its 160 residents were relocated to the ...
Today, the village is more of a museum where visitors can peer into bedrooms and workshops and even the tiny chapel. The hidden village, by the way, is named after the family who settled in the ...
This includes all regions higher than 3,000 m above sea level, as well as most regions between 2,500 m and 3,000 m (Juf at 2,126 m is the highest permanently inhabited village in the Alps). Alpine pastures are typically below 2,400 m but may exceptionally be located as high as 2,800 m.
During the 14th–16th centuries, the Bernese Oberland villages began extensive trading with the Bernese grain producing towns in the lowlands. This allowed the alpine villages to renounce self-sufficiency in grain and focus on raising cattle in the high alpine pastures and bringing them down into the valleys in the winter (transhumance). They ...
It is located on the northern shore of Lake Biel and is made up of the villages of Twann, Wingreis, Tüscherz and Alfermée along with part of the village of Kleintwann, the settlements of Gaicht (676 m [2,218 ft]) and Twannberg (868 m [2,848 ft]) on a terrace in the Jura mountains and St. Peters Island (Sankt Petersinsel) in the lake.