| Foreword | |
| Illustrations | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Locorotondo in Time | p. 14 |
| Peasant Lives | p. 23 |
| An Interview with Marteine | p. 23 |
| Changing Values About Work and Agriculture | p. 24 |
| Rural Landscape and Human Settlement | p. 26 |
| Small Scale Agriculture and the Year Round | p. 27 |
| Box 3.1 - Recipe for Fava Bean Puree | p. 29 |
| Men, Women, Work and the Rural Family | p. 37 |
| The Man With the Shovel, The Woman With the Spoon | p. 37 |
| Marriage Settlements | p. 39 |
| Courtship and Engagement | p. 42 |
| Changing Expectations | p. 45 |
| Children | p. 46 |
| Old People | p. 48 |
| Neighbors | p. 49 |
| Rural Systems of Belief | p. 51 |
| Box 4.1 - The Tale of St. Martin | p. 52 |
| Artisan Lives, Artisan Values | p. 57 |
| Social Class and Social Change in Town | p. 57 |
| A Conversation with Ciccio | p. 59 |
| Before the Great Artisan Crisis | p. 61 |
| Box 5.1 - Tete and Tutuccio | p. 70 |
| The Artisan Crisis and its Aftermath | p. 72 |
| The Old and New Elite | p. 79 |
| A Conversation with Grazia | p. 79 |
| The Old Elite | p. 80 |
| The Rise of a New Middle Class | p. 85 |
| Changing Values and Ideas | p. 88 |
| Ordinary People, Paperwork, and Authority | p. 92 |
| A Conversation With Mario | p. 92 |
| Local Political and Administrative Institutions | p. 94 |
| Schooling and Civil Service Examinations | p. 97 |
| Personalism | p. 98 |
| The Official System and the Real System | p. 99 |
| Patron-Client Relationships | p. 100 |
| Sidestepping Official Regulations | p. 103 |
| Locorotondo in Southern Italian Perspective | p. 106 |
| How the Locorotondesi Distinguished Themselves From Other Peoples | p. 106 |
| How Locorotondesi Talk About Themselves Within Their Region | p. 113 |
| Some Observations on How Locorotondo May Be Distinguished From Other Places | p. 115 |
| References | p. 122 |
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