Managing Existence in Naples
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 09 January 2010
- 19 September 1996
- ISBN:
- 9780511621802
- 9780521562270
- 9780521566650
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.485kg, 254 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.37kg, 256 Pages
- Subjects:
- Social and Cultural Anthropology, Organisational Sociology, Anthropology, Sociology
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (104)
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- Social and Cultural Anthropology, Organisational Sociology, Anthropology, Sociology
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (104)
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Book description
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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"Managing Existence in Naples is a commendable book....a useful text to use in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses." Harley Schreck, H-Net Reviews
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