Italo Pardo has produced a thoughtful and original account of the
moral life of Naples, a city in which the ethics of work, family
and neighbourhood exist in complex relationship with the teachings
of the church and, crucial to key processes of democracy, with the
power and limitations of law, bureaucracy and government. Dr Pardo
identifies the importance of strong continuous interaction between
material and non-material aspects in the entrepreneurial strategies
of the ordinary Neapolitan and shows the ways in which different
ethical systems are negotiated in everyday life. Success is
measured not only by material gain, but also by satisfying
spiritual obligations and meeting the claims of intimate loyalties.
This is one of the very few ethnographic studies of a European
city; it questions old assumptions and raises fresh issues in the
field of urban studies, demonstrating the significance of empirical
analysis to mainstream debates in social theory.
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