Unraveled A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520258488 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 09 Oct 2009 |
DEWEY: | 677 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 304 |
Weight: | 542g |
Height: | 235mm |
Width: | 159mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |