A Venetian Island

Environment, History and Change in Burano
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84545-156-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sciama, Lidia

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1. Burano, Venice and The Lagoon

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Burano

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The Fieldwork

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Burano’s Population and the Politics of Housing

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Proposals for Restoration

Chapter 2. A Sense of History

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Burano’s Fishermen as Comic Stereotypes in Renaissance Drama

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Vincenzo Coronelli’s Isolario and Flaminio Corner’s Ecclesiastical History

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The O-Tai-Tans of the Lagoons

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From Foreign Occupation to Internal Colonialism

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Three Government Reports

Chapter 3. Religion and Social Change

Chapter 4. Kinship and Residence

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Residence Kinship Terminology

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Ritual Kinship

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The Physical Bases of Kinship

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Socialization, Gender and Change

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A Concern with Endogamy

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Names, Surnames and Nicknames

Chapter 5. Stratification

Chapter 6. Honour and Shame in Mediterranean Anthropology

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Some British Anthropological views of Mediterranean Honour

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The Notion of Shame: History and Translation

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Uses of Vergogna in Contemporary Italian

Chapter 7. Burano’s Lace-Making: an Honourable Craft

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The Making Present Conditions

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The History

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Lacemaking from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

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Social Structure and Poverty in Eighteenth Century Burano

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From the Nineteenth Century to the Present

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The Beginnings of Lace

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Social Change and Fathers’ Authority

Chapter 8. Devolution from the Grass-roots: Local Interest against Ideology

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The Chironomidi

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The May 1990 Administrative Elections

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Consigli di Quartiere

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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

Über Autor(innen)

Sciama, Lidia
Lidia Sciama is a former Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford, where she is currently a Research Associate.

Lidia Sciama is a former Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford, where she is currently a Research Associate.