Stones into Bread

Vito Teti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2018
Guernica Editions,Canada (Verlag)
978-1-77183-338-7 (ISBN)

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This is a book about a small Southern Italian village and its offshoots in Toronto. It's about bread and figs and food in general, about Carnival and pilgrimages to religious sanctuaries, about fathers, mothers and children, about migrating and about remaining, about yearning to leave if you've stayed and yearning to make the trek back if you've gone, about how both those who travel and those who never stray from home change. But it's also about what it may mean to write an ethnography of the place you've chosen to continue to inhabit and about how an array of houses in one of the most forlorn backwaters of Europe can actually be in the thick of current history. Mixing fiction and non-fiction, autobiography, portraits of friends and co-villagers, anecdotes, short tales and the reflections of the specialist, it's also about how anthropology can be literature and literature anthropology. In short, it's a book sure to become a classic.

Vito Teti teaches at the University of Calabria. One of Italys major living anthropologists, he has published over a dozen works. Stones into Bread is the first to appear in English. Francesco Loriggio is professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Carleton University, Ottawa. He has published extensively on literary theory, modern Italian literature, and Italian-Canadian literature. He is a translator of some of the works of the Italian playwright Achille Campanile ( The Inventor of the Horse and Other Short Plays ), and the editor of Social Pluralism and Literary History.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	GWE Literature in Translation
Übersetzer	Francesco Loriggio, Damiano Pietropaolo
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Italien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-77183-338-6 / 1771833386
ISBN-13	978-1-77183-338-7 / 9781771833387
Zustand	Neuware