Managing Existence in Naples - Morality, Action and Structure

Zusammenfassung Italo Pardo has produced a thoughtful and original account of the moral life of Naples! showing how ethical issues are addressed in everyday life. One of the very few ethnographic studies of a European city! Managing Existence in Naples questions old assumptions and raises fresh issues in the field of urban studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Issues of anthropological research in urban Europe; 2. Beyond unemployment: work, morality and entrepreneurship; 3. Entrepreneurial morality and ethics among the young: changing social and cultural relations; 4. Acceptance vs discernment: the morals of family, kinship and neighbourhood as resource options; 5. Transgression, control and exchange: the rationality of the ambiguous and the liminal in life and death; 6. The mass diffusion of contacts: redefined power relations, values of representation; 7. The relation of agency to organisation and structure: deconstructed polarizations at the grass roots of democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Italo Pardo, Italo Pardo, Italo (University of Kent Pardo
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521566650
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56665-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in New Art H
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology