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Author Sciama, Lidia D.

Title A Venetian island : environment, history, and change in Burano / Lidia D. Sciama.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, ©2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series New directions in anthropology ; v. 8
New directions in anthropology ; v. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Contents 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
Summary "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 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."--Jacket
Language English.
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Subject Burano (Italy) -- History.
Burano (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Manners and customs
Italy -- Burano https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRgWwPgMjMpWGr6c4yqp
Regions & Countries - Europe.
History & Archaeology.
Italy.
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Sciama, Lidia D. Venetian island. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2003 9781571819208 (DLC) 2002018402 (OCoLC)48958462
ISBN 9781782386148 (electronic bk.)
1782386149 (electronic bk.)
1571819207 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781571819208 (cloth ; alk. paper)