264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Breaking new ground in Mediterreanean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline's traditional focus on honour and shame in small face-to-face communities, and suggests instead that gender and sexuality interact with material processes in the constitution of personal and social identities. In this ethnographic account of the labour market in Naples, the author shows how cultural definitions of... Read more
Contents: Italian Economic Development and the Problem of the South -- Marginality and Political Culture in Naples -- A Brief History of Urban Space in Naples -- Outworkers: Lives and Careers -- The Petty Producer and the Mirage of Independence -- The Organisation of Sexuality -- Familism and Identity in Naples -- Motherhood and Gender Identity -- The Family and the Construction of Gender
Biography
Victoria A. Goddard Goldsmiths College,University of London
