A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano

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Berghahn Books, 2003 - 250 Seiten

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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Burano Venice and The Lagoon
1
A Sense of History
37
Religion and Social Change
65
Kinship and Residence
75
Stratification
117
Honour and Shame in Mediterranean Anthropology
133
an Honourable Craft
155
Local Interest against Ideology
191
The May 1990 Administrative Elections
199
A Doctors Duties
215
Conclusions
223
The Venetian Territory and its Population
229
Bibliography
235
Index
244
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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.

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