Kandersteg is the archetypal Swiss village set in a deep valley.

Great Torrington and Buckland Monachorum are among the archetypal rural villages, in an area with tranquil retreats, relatively close to the edge of Dartmoor.

Kandersteg is the archetypal Swiss village set in a deep valley and blanketed with snow in winter.

In some indeterminate future, AIDS-like diseases ravage cities just a few days' walk from "archetypal villages" where capitalized Heroes look after capitalized Orphans, and where capitalized Oracles foresee the future and tell of a legendary past when people traveled to the stars and did not return.

Along with archetypal villages, we get talking animals, a Place of Power dominated by a capitalized Witch, and a Utopian polity where all the problems of human society have been solved by what appears to be a committee of benevolent dictators.

Wombourne Village Green is considered to resemble an archetypal 'English village', as it is in the centre of the village and opposite St Benedict's Church.

Or as subtly as Harriet Doerr used the archetypal Mexican village in "Stones for Ibarra"?

Along the west side of an archetypal village square are shops and offices: a general store moved from Altay, N.Y., a physician's office with its primitive equipment and medicaments and the Hastings Law Office from Mount Morris, all built in the 1840's.

Here is the archetypal unspoiled Ile-de-France village, with a well-wooded slope to protect it and some nicely characterized (and, again, unspoiled) village people doing nothing much of anything.