Folklore by the Fireside: Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia - Couverture souple

Falassi, Alessandro

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0292740859 ISBN 13 : 9780292740853

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 1980

Synopsis

For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this custom-from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children are put to bed to the courtship songs and dances later in the evening to the anti-veglia male gossip, card games, and protest songs originating in the tavern.

Alessandro Falassi skillfully correlates the veglia to the rites of passage and family values of an agrarian society. Although the impact of mass media and other factors has tended to weaken the tradition, even today Tuscan children are taught to behave and adolescents are guided along the conventional path to adulthood, courtship, and marriage through veglia folklore.

This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values. It is important not only for its careful, detailed description but also for its rigorous methodology and theoretical richness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alessandro Falassi, a Tuscan himself, has taught anthropology at numerous universities in the United States and Italy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0292740859
• ISBN 13: 9780292740853
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
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