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Americans in Tuscany : charity, compassion, and belonging /

Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trundle, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Colección:New directions in anthropology ; v. 36.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and new cultural terrain, many women struggle to build local lives. In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means by which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. This book traces women.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781782383703
1782383700
1782383697
9781782383697