Broken Fountain

Name: Broken Fountain
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ISBN: 9780231133715

ISBN-10: 0231133715

ISBN-13: 9780231133715

Edition: 25th 2005 (Anniversary)

Authors: Thomas Belmonte, Pellegrino D'Acierno, Stanislao Pugliese, Ida Susser, Stanislao G. Pugliese

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As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one of the most acclaimed ethnographies of recent years, offers vivid, literary descriptions of Fontana del Re, an impoverished Neapolitan neighborhood. Belmonte documents the struggles of Neapolitans surrounded by crumbling buildings and economic insecurity. He details family dynamics as well as the workings of Naples's informal economy, the day-to-day struggle for economic subsistence, and the intermittent begging and thieving of the young. Taking us from the bustling, vibrant, and gritty streets and alleyways of Naples to the kitchen tables of poor…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Edition: 25th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Thomas Belmonte was a professor of anthropology at Hofstra University.Ida Susser is professor of anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood; The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory; and Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Paean to the City



Fieldwork in Naples



The Neapolitan Personal Style



Tragedies of Fellowship and Community



Family Life-Worlds



The Interpretation of Family Feeling



The Triumvirate of Want



Reactions to a Disordered World



Conclusion: the Poor of Naples and the World Underclass


Notes


Index