A Venetian island : environment, history, and change in Burano by Sciama, Lidia D instant download

A Venetian island : environment, history, and change in Burano by Sciama, Lidia D instant download

1 online resource (xxii, 250 pages) :, \"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, Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index, 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, digitized 2010, Print version record, 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…