Unraveled : A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern / Elizabeth L Krause; ed. by Elizabeth Krause.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krause, Elizabeth L., Author.

Contributor:

Beth, Miss, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.) : 11 b/w photographs

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Deftly bridging literary conventions, this compelling work exposes the cultural origins of a quiet revolution that occurred over the course of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Krause combines novelistic and ethnographic techniques to illuminate population dynamics that have raised alarm across Europe and the United States, and manifested, for example, in Italy's extremely low birthrate. But what actually motivates people to have fewer children? Krause turns to the evocative story of one woman, Emilia Raugei, who was born in a Tuscan hill town in 1920 and worked as a straw weaver in a rapidly globalizing economy, to better understand this question. Based on extensive fieldwork, including indepth conversations with Emilia herself, Krause draws on her rich and unconventional memories to create an engaging portrait of life in a rural village during Mussolini's rise to power-it is a tale of migration, love and loss, political turmoil, and the struggle to make a living during hard times. Giving voice to a largely silent history that is at once local and global, Unraveled: A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern will challenge us to find innovative approaches to understanding the transformative shift to a modern way of life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Cast of Characters

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I HISTORY IMAGINED

1. Postcards

2. Abandoned

3. Telling Time

4. Fascist Folk

5. Giottos Circle

6. Blood Relations

7. Chains

8. Rations

9. War Country

10. Resistance

11. American Chocolates

12. Only One

PART II MEMORY ENCOUNTERED

13. Neighbors

14. A Weavers Tale

15. Progress

16. Singles Sexuality

17. Amazing Grace

18. A Burning Question

19. Generation Gap

20. Wet and Hidden Economies

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-94494-1

OCLC:

1408682822