A Venetian island : environment, history, and change in Burano /: environment, history, and change in Burano. (©2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lidia D. Sciama.
• Other Names: Sciama, Lidia D
• Contents: 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 Craft The Making Present Conditions The History Lacemaking from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Social Structure and Poverty in Eighteenth Century Burano From the Nineteenth Century to the Present The Beginnings of Lace Social Change and Fathers' Authority Chapter 8. Devolution from the Grass-roots: Local Interest against Ideology The Chironomidi The May 1990 Administrative Elections Consigli di Quartiere 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
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 250 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 945/.31; HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Manners and customs; Milieu; Sociale verandering; Sozialgeschichte; Burano (Italy) -- History; Burano (Italy) -- Social life and customs; Italy -- Burano; Burano; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782386148; 1782386149
• Related ISBNs: 1571819207; 9781571819208
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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