Venetian Island

Environment, History and Change in Burano

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

Av Lidia D. Sciama, Lidia Sciama

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Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna 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 of continuity with "truly Venetian traditions."Based on ethnographic and archival data, this in-depth study of the Venetian island of Burano shows how its inhabitants develop their sense of a distinct identity on the basis of their notions of gender, honor and kinship relations, their common memories, their knowledge and love of their environment and their special skills in fishing and lace making.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-07-17
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in Anthropology
Antal sidor272
FörlagBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN9781571819208

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsForewordChapter 1. Burano, Venice and The LagoonBuranoThe FieldworkBurano’s Population and the Politics of HousingProposals for RestorationChapter 2. A Sense of HistoryBurano’s Fishermen as Comic Stereotypes in Renaissance DramaVincenzo Coronelli’s Isolario and Flaminio Corner’s Ecclesiastical HistoryThe O-Tai-Tans of the LagoonsFrom Foreign Occupation to Internal ColonialismThree Government ReportsChapter 3. Religion and Social ChangeChapter 4. Kinship and ResidenceResidence Kinship TerminologyRitual KinshipThe Physical Bases of KinshipSocialization, Gender and ChangeA Concern with EndogamyNames, Surnames and NicknamesChapter 5. StratificationChapter 6. Honour and Shame in Mediterranean AnthropologySome British Anthropological views of Mediterranean HonourThe Notion of Shame: History and TranslationUses of Vergogna in Contemporary ItalianChapter 7. Burano’s Lace-Making: an Honourable CraftThe Making Present ConditionsThe HistoryLacemaking from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth CenturySocial Structure and Poverty in Eighteenth Century BuranoFrom the Nineteenth Century to the PresentThe Beginnings of LaceSocial Change and Fathers’ AuthorityChapter 8. Devolution from the Grass-roots: Local Interest against IdeologyThe ChironomidiThe May 1990 Administrative ElectionsConsigli di QuartiereA Doctor’s DutiesConclusionsAppendix 1: The Venetian Territory and its PopulationAppendix 2: Law 16 April 1973. Interventions for the safeguard of VeniceAppendix 3: CensusBibliographyIndex

“…an absorbing study…[that] opens up fascinating potential for comparative analysis.” · JRAI"…a significant contribution to the anthropology of the lagoon, previously not studied in English-language anthropology. The careful and fascinating account of lace-making is also an important contribution to the study of craft and skill, particularly gendered skill that remains underdeveloped in the English-language anthropology of Italy and indeed of Europe. More broadly, this book successfully offers a poignant portrait of a tiny community that is at once proud of its unique skills and achievements, and dismayed and humiliated by its continuing exclusion from the wealth and power of the city, with "a deep-rooted sense of [its] own marginality" · H-Environment"The work has qualities that could make it a model for anthropologists dissatisfied with the attempt to create an 'urban anthropology' but unwilling to continue the traditional obsession with remote communities." · Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University