Unraveled - A Weaver′s Tale of Life Gone Modern

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25849-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Deftly bridging literary conventions, this compelling work exposes the cultural origins of a quiet revolution that occurred over the course of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Krause combines novelistic and ethnographic techniques to illuminate population dynamics that have raised alarm across Europe and the United States, and manifested, for example, in Italy's extremely low birthrate. But what actually motivates people to have fewer children? Krause turns to the evocative story of one woman, Emilia Raugei, who was born in a Tuscan hill town in 1920 and worked as a straw weaver in a rapidly globalizing economy, to better understand this question. Based on extensive fieldwork, including indepth conversations with Emilia herself, Krause draws on her rich and unconventional memories to create an engaging portrait of life in a rural village during Mussolini's rise to power-it is a tale of migration, love and loss, political turmoil, and the struggle to make a living during hard times. Giving voice to a largely silent history that is at once local and global, Unraveled: A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern will challenge us to find innovative approaches to understanding the transformative shift to a modern way of life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krause, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Cast of Characters

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: History Imagined

1. Postcards

2. Abandoned

3. Telling Time

4. Fascist Folk

5. Giotto's Circle

6. Blood Relations

7. Chains

8. Rations

9. War Country

10. Resistance

11. American Chocolates

12. Only One

Part II: Memory Encountered

13. Neighbors

14. A Weaver's Tale

15. Progress

16. Singles' Sexuality

17. Amazing Grace

18. A Burning Question

19. Generation Gap

20. “Wet” and Hidden Economies

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth L. Krause is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy.