TY - BOOK AU - Dressler,Wanda AU - Knight,Anna TI - Modernization of the Island PY - 2008///. N1 - 79 N2 - This article offers a succinct evaluation of the last fifty years of economic and institutional modernisation in Corsican society, which began in the immediate post-war period. It analyses the way clan structures and nationalist movements have dealt with this modernisation, each in their own way. Their handling of these changes has largely involved a relentless political struggle, implying their unending adaptation to an ever-changing national and international environment. There is however some evidence, at least superficially, that a mood of stagnation and desperation has prevailed, along with the parallel maintenance of clanic structures and political violence UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2008-3-page-415?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -