The Bounded Field : : Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley / / Jaro Stacul.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Stacul, Jaro,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Anthropology ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Note on Language --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; 1. Introducing Localism --; 2. The Setting and its Historical Background --; 3. A Private Space: The Present-day Organisation of Village Life --; 4. Knowing One’s Land: Hunters and Poachers --; 5. The View from Below: Constructions of Otherness --; 6. Natural Time, Political Time: Representations of History --; 7. Local Politics in Theory and Practice --; 8. Conclusions: Localism Revisited --; Appendices --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785339141; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785339141?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jaro Stacul.

Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino region of northern Italy, the author investigates how ideas about village boundaries and private property form the background against which regionalist ideologies are understood. In suggesting that ideas about regionalism largely reflect views about private property, he provides an alternative to theories of nationalism that overlook the articulation between official ideologies and discourses at the local level.