A Venetian Island

Environment, History and Change in Burano

By: Lidia Sciama

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Hardcover | 1 June 2003

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Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna 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.

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"...an absorbing study...[that] opens up fascinating potential for comparative analysis." · JRAI

"...a significant contribution to the anthropology of the lagoon, previously not studied in English-language anthropology. The careful and fascinating account of lace-making is also an important contribution to the study of craft and skill, particularly gendered skill that remains underdeveloped in the English-language anthropology of Italy and indeed of Europe. More broadly, this book successfully offers a poignant portrait of a tiny community that is at once proud of its unique skills and achievements, and dismayed and humiliated by its continuing exclusion from the wealth and power of the city, with "a deep-rooted sense of [its] own marginality" · H-Environment

"The work has qualities that could make it a model for anthropologists dissatisfied with the attempt to create an 'urban anthropology' but unwilling to continue the traditional obsession with remote communities." · Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Burano, Venice and The Lagoon	p. 1
A Sense of History	p. 37
Religion and Social Change	p. 65
Kinship and Residence	p. 75
Stratification	p. 117
Honour and Shame in Mediterranean Anthropology	p. 133
Burano's Lace-Making: an Honourable Craft	p. 155
Devolution from the Grass-roots: Local Interest against Ideology	p. 191
Conclusions	p. 223
The Venetian Territory and its Population	p. 229
Law 16 April 1973. Interventions for the Safeguard of Venice	p. 231
Census	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 244
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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