Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

Violeta Schubert is a Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne.

“Modernity and the Unmaking of Men is an ethnographically rich and beautifully written work that analyzes aging bachelorhood in the context of rural depopulation and decline and of changing values to marriage and childrearing in the country now known as North Macedonia… The book presents a wealth of fascinating details about so-called old bachelors who are over twenty-five, the socially expected age of marriage, and refuse to get married... Overall, [this] is a richly informative, engaging, and accessible book that will interest general readers, undergraduate and graduate students, and specialists in Europe alike.” • Anthropos“This book contains a wealth of ethnographic detail on kinship, marriage, and masculinity in rural Macedonia in the post-Socialist period.  With her focus on “the village scape,” Schubert adds fresh insights to understandings of modernity and the state.” • Deborah Reed-Danahay, University of Buffalo

• Notes on TranslationIntroductionChapter 1. ‘A Village Is for the Old and Dead’: The Disappearing Village ScapeChapter 2. A Kinship Frame of MindChapter 3.  Marriage and the ‘Order’ of LifeChapter 4. The Invisible Significants: Women and the Androcentric Social ImaginaryChapter 5. The (Dis)Orderly IndividualChapter 6. The Decoupling of Time and Order: Aging Bachelors and the (Im)productive Ethno-NationConclusion: On Being StuckReferencesIndex