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Power in the Village explores the formation of
late-nineteenth-century Italian rural society in southern Brazil,
through an examination of how Italian peasants in northern Italy
and southern Brazil solved issues related to family honor. Looking
specifically at social networks and justice practices to examine
the kind of rationality that ruled individual and family behaviors,
the book offers an understanding of the restoration of social
balance in these communities, and explores the culture of
immigrants, particularly in issues related to honor and morality.
Taking as a case study the ambush and murder of a parish priest,
Antonio Sorio, in January 1900 in Silveira Martins, a small town of
Italian immigrants, Vendrame offers a reinterpretation of the
society of Italian immigrants in southern Brazil. She argues that
rather than being an idyllic picture of a homogeneous and
harmonious society, the colonial settlements were places pervaded
by tension, solidarity and self-interest, which guided individual
and collective behavior. This book will be of great interest to
scholars working in Italian history, Brazilian history, immigration
history and the history of colonialism. It will also be of interest
to scholars working on ethnographic and religious history, as well
as to social anthropologists.
Power in the Village explores the formation of
late-nineteenth-century Italian rural society in southern Brazil,
through an examination of how Italian peasants in northern Italy
and southern Brazil solved issues related to family honor. Looking
specifically at social networks and justice practices to examine
the kind of rationality that ruled individual and family behaviors,
the book offers an understanding of the restoration of social
balance in these communities, and explores the culture of
immigrants, particularly in issues related to honor and morality.
Taking as a case study the ambush and murder of a parish priest,
Antonio Sorio, in January 1900 in Silveira Martins, a small town of
Italian immigrants, Vendrame offers a reinterpretation of the
society of Italian immigrants in southern Brazil. She argues that
rather than being an idyllic picture of a homogeneous and
harmonious society, the colonial settlements were places pervaded
by tension, solidarity and self-interest, which guided individual
and collective behavior. This book will be of great interest to
scholars working in Italian history, Brazilian history, immigration
history and the history of colonialism. It will also be of interest
to scholars working on ethnographic and religious history, as well
as to social anthropologists.
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