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GEOGRAPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN ITALY
2006-07-19T13:10:36Z
Editor(s)
Claval, Paul
Pagnini, Maria Paola
Scaini, Maurizio
Abstract
If it ever really existed, the notion of the South of Italy as a cultural landscape indistinct
and primitive in its atavistic and dense backwardness was an imaginary vision of distant lands
on the outskirts of Europe. A “paradise populated by devils” where the aforementioned
backwardness consisted of violence, individualism, familism, fatalism and so on. Or even
worse, a space where atavistic customs and modes of behavior are practiced and pursued with
modern instruments. The question would for the most part be one of “passive modernization”
(Cafagna, 1994), which with the homologation of consumption has merely recast ancestral
modes of behavior which are still present and largely still active.
Journal
Proceedings of the Conference THE CULTURAL TURN IN GEOGRAPHY, 18-20th of September 2003 - Gorizia Campus
Part II: Landscape Construction and Cultural Identity
Languages
en
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