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A Venetian island : environment, history, and change in Burano /
"Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's lagoon areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a common culture and establish a sense...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
©2003.
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| Colección: | New directions in anthropology ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword Chapter 1. Burano, Venice and The Lagoon Burano The Fieldwork Burano's Population and the Politics of Housing Proposals for Restoration Chapter 2. A Sense of History Burano's Fishermen as Comic Stereotypes in Renaissance Drama Vincenzo Coronelli's Isolario and Flaminio Corner's Ecclesiastical History The O-Tai-Tans of the Lagoons From Foreign Occupation to Internal Colonialism Three Government Reports Chapter 3. Religion and Social Change Chapter 4. Kinship and Residence Residence Kinship Terminology Ritual Kinship The Physical Bases of Kinship Socialization, Gender and Change A Concern with Endogamy Names, Surnames and Nicknames Chapter 5. Stratification Chapter 6.
- Honour and Shame in Mediterranean Anthropology Some British Anthropological views of Mediterranean Honour The Notion of Shame: History and Translation Uses of Vergogna in Contemporary Italian Chapter 7. Burano's Lace-Making: an Honourable Craft The Making Present Conditions The History Lacemaking from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Social Structure and Poverty in Eighteenth Century Burano From the Nineteenth Century to the Present The Beginnings of Lace Social Change and Fathers' Authority Chapter 8. Devolution from the Grass-roots: Local Interest against Ideology The Chironomidi The May 1990 Administrative Elections Consigli di Quartiere A Doctor's Duties Conclusions Appendix 1: The Venetian Territory and its Population; Appendix 2: Law 16 April 1973.
- Interventions for the safeguard of Venice; Appendix 3: Census Bibliography; Index