Hidden Frontier
Hidden Frontier may refer to: * ''The Hidden Frontier ''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 ...'', a 1974 ethnographic study * '' Star Trek: Hidden Frontier'', ''Star Trek'' fan film project {{disambig ...
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The Hidden Frontier
''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 differences, one village being German-speaking and the other Italian-speaking, so that the same physical environment was cast in terms of distinct cultural worlds in either village. Comparison of the two villages showed a clear cultural boundary, in effect that between Germanic Europe and Romance Europe along the southern, alpine boundary of German-speaking Europe. The German-speaking village St. Felix had the characteristic structure of a dispersed settlement (''Streusiedlung'') while the Italian-speaking settlement Tret had a clear nucleus. The authors trace the history of the region t ...
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