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Jaro Stacul obtained a Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Swansea, and currently is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

• List of IllustrationsNote on LanguagePreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introducing LocalismChapter 2. The Setting and its Historical BackgroundChapter 3. A Private Space: The Present-day Organisation of Village LifeChapter 4. Knowing One’s Land: Hunters and PoachersChapter 5. The View from Below: Constructions of OthernessChapter 6. Natural Time, Political Time: Representations of HistoryChapter 7. Local Politics in Theory and PracticeChapter 8. Conclusions: Localism RevisitedAppendicesReferencesIndex

"This is all fascinating, well documented, and the relationship between local activism and the larger political movements is sensibly analysed…Overall this is a revealing study of the power of locality in framing experience and action." · JRAI"...in focusing attention on the importance of deconstructing localisms, Stacul issues an important challenge to students of any aspect of Italian society." · Modern Italy