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MANAGING EXISTENCE IN NAPLES
MORALITY, ACTION AND STRUCTURE |
| By: |
Italo Pardo, Meyer Fortes, Edmund Leach |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521566657 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521566650 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 September, 1996 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology No.104 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
A thoughtful account of life in Naples, and how moral questions are addressed in everyday choices. |
| Synopsis: |
Italo Pardo has produced a thoughtful and original account of the moral life of Naples, a city in which the ethics of work, family and neighbourhood exist in complex relationship with the teachings of the church and, crucial to key processes of democracy, with the power and limitations of law, bureaucracy and government. Dr Pardo identifies the importance of strong continuous interaction between material and non-material aspects in the entrepreneurial strategies of the ordinary Neapolitan and shows the ways in which different ethical systems are negotiated in everyday life. Success is measured not only by material gain, but also by satisfying spiritual obligations and meeting the claims of intimate loyalties. This is one of the very few ethnographic studies of a European city; it questions old assumptions and raises fresh issues in the field of urban studies, demonstrating the significance of empirical analysis to mainstream debates in social theory. |
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2 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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