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A Venetian island: environment, history and change in Burano
Lidia D. Sciama
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page vii)
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Acknowledgements (page x)
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Foreword (page xii)
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1. Burano, Venice and The Lagoon (page 1)
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Burano (page 6)
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The Fieldwork (page 9)
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Burano's Population and the Politics of Housing (page 13)
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Proposals for Restoration (page 21)
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2. A Sense of History (page 37)
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Burano's Fishermen as Comic Stereotypes in Renaissance Drama (page 44)
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The History of the Northern Lagoon from the Works of Vincenzo Coronelli, and from Flaminio Corner's Ecclesiastical History (page 45)
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The O-Tai-Tans of the Lagoons (page 47)
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From Foreign Occupation to Internal Colonialism. Three Government Reports (page 50)
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3. Religion and Social Change (page 65)
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4. Kinship and Residence (page 75)
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Residence (page 76)
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Kinship terminology (page 85)
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Ritual Kinship (page 89)
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The Physical Bases of Kinship (page 90)
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Socialisation, Gender and Change (page 91)
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A Concern with Endogamy (page 101)
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Names, Surnames and Nicknames (page 106)
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5. Stratification (page 117)
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6. Honour and Shame in Mediterranean Anthropology (page 133)
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Some British Anthropological Views of Mediterranean Honour (page 134)
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The Notion of Shame: History and Translation (page 142)
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Uses of Vergogna in Contemporary Italian (page 149)
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7. Burano's Lace-Making: an Honourable Craft (page 155)
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The Making (page 156)
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Present Conditions (page 157)
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The History (page 163)
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Lacemaking from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century (page 166)
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Social Structure and Poverty in Eighteenth Century Burano (page 169)
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From the Nineteenth Century to the Present (page 173)
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The Beginnings of Lace (page 178)
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Social Change and Fathers' Authority (page 181)
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8. Devolution from the Grass-roots: Local Interest against Ideology (page 191)
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The Chironomidi (page 191)
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The May 1990 Administrative Elections (page 199)
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Consigli di Quartiere (page 204)
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A Doctor's Duties (page 215)
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Conclusions (page 223)
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Appendix 1: The Venetian Territory and its Population (page 229)
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Appendix 2: Law 16 April 1973. Interventions for the Safeguard of Venice (page 231)
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Appendix 3: Census (page 233)
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Bibliography (page 235)
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Index (page 244)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JRAI | 13.3 (Sep. 2007): 756-757 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4623034 |
JAF | 118.467 (Winter 2005): 122-123 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4137814 |
Citable Link
Published: 2006
Publisher: Berghahn Books
- 9781782386148 (ebook)
- 9781845451561 (paper)
- 9781571819208 (hardcover)