Pardo, Italo (1996) 1996 Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action, and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 232 pp. ISBN 0-521-56665-7. E-ISBN 978-0-511-62180-2. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:51469)
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Abstract
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 ordinary Neapolitans 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.
Item Type: | Book |
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation |
Depositing User: | Italo Pardo |
Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2015 06:25 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:21 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/51469 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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