Power in the Village - Social Networks, Honor Justice Among Immigrant Families From Italy

List of contents

Introduction 1. Versions of a tragedy 2. The trajectory of an "ambitious" peasant 3. On both sides of the Atlantic: family strategies and migratory networks 4. Networks of Compadrio 5. Don Antonio Sorio and his authority 6. Family matters: honor and reparation 7. Winds of vengeance Final Considerations Bibliography

About the author

Maíra Ines Vendrame is Professor of History at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Brazil. She is the author of two books and several articles on Italian immigration to Southern Brazil. She was the winner of the fourth Vanni Blengino Award, Italy, 2015 (AREIA international award) with the text: "Offenses, reparations and community control: the justice of Italian immigrants in the colonial nuclei of southern Brazil" and in 2015 she received the ANPUH-RS thesis award. Her research interests include social networks and migratory strategies, family, honor, justice practices, criminality, women, community organization, religiosity and popular culture.

Summary

This book explores the formation of Italian rural society in southern Brazil from the late nineteenth century through an examination of how Italian peasants in northern Italy and southern Brazil solved issues related to family honor.

Product details

• Authors: INES VENDRAME, Maira Ines Vendrame, Maíra Ines Vendrame
• Assisted by: Miriam Adelman (Editor), Alexandre Karsburg (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780367025175
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02517-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Microhistories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Brazil, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Italy, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas