Carlo Levi, Aliano and the rural Mezzogiorno in the 1930s: an interpretative essay |
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| Authors: | Russell King |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1371, CEP 05508-090 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil;2. Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo, Professor Almeida Prado 1466, CEP 05508-070 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil;3. Federal University of Western Pará, Rua Vera Paz, s/n (Unidade Tapajós) Bairro Salé, CEP 68040-255 Santarém, Pará, Brazil;4. Department of Physics, State University of Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, Pr 445 Km 380, Campus Universitário, CEP 86.057-970 Londrina, Paraná, Brazil;5. Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA;6. Department of Archaeology, Federal University of Rondônia Foundation, Rod. BR-364, km. 9,5, CEP, 78923-250, Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil;7. Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK;8. Institute of Geosciences, University of Brasilia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, CEP 70910-900 Brasilia-DF, Brazil |
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Carlo Levi's classic book Christ Stopped at Eboli provides unique insights into rural conditions in a village in Basilicata, southern Italy, in the 1930s, a time when objective documentation on Italian rural economic and social life was largely suppressed by Fascism. Levi's narrative is systematically analysed under the following heads: the relationship of the rural South to the central authorities in Rome; the character of the landscape around Levi's village of Aliano; economic life; social structure; social conditions, including poverty, health and education; emigration and return migration. The concluding discussion focuses on Levi's interpretation of the nature and causes of the ‘southern problem’ and his views of Basilicatan peasant culture. |
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