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Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure

By Italo Pardo

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521566657, 9780521566650
LCC
HN488.N3 P37 1996
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7117809 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages
256\253
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Neapolitan scholar Italo Pardo has produced a thoughtful and original account of the moral life of Naples, where the ethics of family and neighborhood exist in tension with the constraints of church and government. Dr. Pardo shows how different ethical systems are accommodated in the choices of everyday life, while success is measured by satisfying spiritual obligations as well as by material gain. 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.

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