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100 1 $aBell, Rudolph M.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFate, honor, family and village :$bdemographic and cultural change in rural Italy since 1800 /$cRudolph M. Bell.
264 1 $aLondon :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$c2017.
300 $a1 online resource :$billustrations, maps
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337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 18, 2017).
520 2 $a"The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive. In Fate and Honor, Family and Village, Rudolph Bell argues against this characterization by reconstructing the complete demographic history of four country villages since 1800. He analyzes births, marriages, and deaths in terms of four concepts that capture more accurately and sympathetically the essence of the Italian peasant's life: Fortuna (fate), onore (honor, dignity), famiglia (family), and campanilismo (village). Fortuna is the cultural wellspring of Italian peasant society, the worldview from which all social life flows. The concept of Fortuna does not refer to philosophical questions, predestination, or value judgments. Rather, Fortuna is the sum total of all explanations of outcomes perceived to be beyond human control. Thus, in Bell's view, high mortality does not lead peasants to a resigned acceptance of their fate; instead, they rely on honor, reciprocal exchanges of favors, and marriage to forge new links in their familial and social networks. With thorough documentation in graphs and tables, the author evaluates peasant reactions to time, work, family, space, migration, and protest to portray rural Italians as active, flexible, and shrewd, participating fully in shaping their destinies. Bell asserts that the real problem of the Mezzogiorno is not one of resistance to technology, of high birth rates, or even of illiteracy. It is one of solving technical questions in ways that foster dependency. The historical and sociological practice of treating peasant culture as backward, secondary, and circumscribed only encourages disruption and ultimately blocks the road to economic and political justice in a post-modern world."--Provided by publisher
505 0 $aChapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Setting -- chapter 3 Past -- chapter 4 Time -- chapter 5 Family -- chapter 6 Work -- chapter 7 Space -- chapter 8 Migration -- chapter 9 Epilogue: Future.
650 0 $aPeasants$zItaly.
650 0 $aRural families$zItaly.
651 0 $aItaly$xRural conditions.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE$xSociology$xRural.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPeasants.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01734394
650 7 $aRural conditions.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01101474
650 7 $aRural families.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01101623
651 7 $aItaly.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204565
655 4 $aElectronic books.
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio15125524$zTaylor & Francis eBooks
852 8 $blweb$hEBOOKS