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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461186903321

Autore

Crociani-Windland Lita

Titolo

Festivals, affect, and identity : a Deleuzian apprenticeship in central Italian communities / / Lita Crociani-Windland [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-280-49083-7

9786613586063

0-85728-809-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem European Studies

Disciplina

394.269456

Soggetti

Festivals - Italy, Central

National characteristics, Italian

Italians - Ethnic identity

Ethnicity - Italy, Central

Ethnology - Italy, Central

Italy, Central Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Learning, identity, duration, and the virtual -- Siena and its province: an overview -- Siena and the Palio " war and state machine": identity and becoming -- Montepulciano and Bruscello: rupture, continuity, and the "refrain" -- The "problem/idea" of Montepulciano: how to be autonomous in the face of overwhelming force -- Montepulciano's bravio delle botti and a genealogy of cunning -- Sharecropping and modernity -- Monticchiello's "problem/idea": a community under siege -- A tree with its roots in the air: Monticchiello's theatre of the "virtual" -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an illustration of the explanatory power of continental philosophy in relation to the ethnographic study of Siena’s Palio and other community festivals of the Siena Province in central Italy.