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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Anthropology ; 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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