Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica

Name: Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica
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ISBN: 9780521522649

ISBN-10: 0521522641

ISBN-13: 9780521522649

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Authors: Stephen Wilson

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Corsica is associated in many people's minds with vendetta and banditry, but these phenomena have not been studied systematically. Using accounts by visitors and officials and particularly judicial records, this book provides such a study for the nineteenth century. Accounts of specific feuds lasting over many generations are given, including that which inspired Mrime's Colomba, and the whole phenomenon is set in its proper context of competition for scarce material resources and power in a traditional agro-pastoral society. Attitudes to death and the dead are examined, and reveal a divergence between local practice and belief and official Christianity, and the persistence of the notion…

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List price: $53.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.02" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English

Stephen Wilson was Professor of Conceptual and Information Artsat San Francisco State University. His previous publications includeUsing Computers to Create Art and Information Arts: Intersections of Art,Science, and Technology.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements



Corsica in the nineteenth century



The history and incidence of feuds



Conflict and its causes: conflicts of material interest



Conflict and its causes: conflicts of honour



Conflict and its causes: intrafamilial conflict



Conflict and its causes: inter-community conflict



Obligation and organization in the feud



Immunity and disruption



Concilation and peacemaking



Feuding and the courts



Patronage and political conflict



Banditry



Death and the dead



Conclusion


Appendices


List of abbreviations


Notes


Sources and bibliography


Index