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Folklore by the Fireside - Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia (Paperback)
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Folklore by the Fireside - Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia (Paperback)
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For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the
veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth.
Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this
custom-from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers
performed as the small children are put to bed to the courtship
songs and dances later in the evening to the anti-veglia male
gossip, card games, and protest songs originating in the tavern.
Alessandro Falassi skillfully correlates the veglia to the rites of
passage and family values of an agrarian society. Although the
impact of mass media and other factors has tended to weaken the
tradition, even today Tuscan children are taught to behave and
adolescents are guided along the conventional path to adulthood,
courtship, and marriage through veglia folklore. This is the first
work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic
and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of
handing down traditional values. It is important not only for its
careful, detailed description but also for its rigorous methodology
and theoretical richness.
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