List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1. Burano, Venice and The Lagoon
- Burano
- The Fieldwork
- Burano's Population and the Politics of Housing
- Proposals for Restoration
Chapter 2. A Sense of History
- Burano's Fishermen as Comic Stereotypes in Renaissance Drama
- Vincenzo Coronelli's Isolario and Flaminio Corner's Ecclesiastical History
- The O-Tai-Tans of the Lagoons
- From Foreign Occupation to Internal Colonialism
- Three Government Reports
Chapter 3. Religion and Social Change
Chapter 4. Kinship and Residence
- Residence Kinship Terminology
- Ritual Kinship
- The Physical Bases of Kinship
- Socialization, Gender and Change
- A Concern with Endogamy
- Names, Surnames and Nicknames
Chapter 5. Stratification
Chapter 6. Honour and Shame in Mediterranean Anthropology
- Some British Anthropological views of Mediterranean Honour
- The Notion of Shame: History and Translation
- Uses of Vergogna in Contemporary Italian
Chapter 7. Burano's Lace-Making: an Honourable Craft
- The Making Present Conditions
- The History
- Lacemaking from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
- Social Structure and Poverty in Eighteenth Century Burano
- From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
- The Beginnings of Lace
- Social Change and Fathers' Authority
Chapter 8. Devolution from the Grass-roots: Local Interest against Ideology
- The Chironomidi
- The May 1990 Administrative Elections
- Consigli di Quartiere
- A Doctor's Duties
Conclusions
Appendix 1: The Venetian Territory and its Population
Appendix 2: Law 16 April 1973. Interventions for the safeguard of Venice
Appendix 3: Census
Bibliography
Index