Download or read book The Hidden Frontier written by John W. Cole and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-11-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book’s innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages—the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret—only a mile apart in the same mountain valley.