Italian culture and the Western tradition
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Page : 55 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 1951
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Page : 55 pages
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Release : 1951
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Author : Columbia University. Casa italiana
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Italy
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Page : 55 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Paolo Janni
Publisher : Center for Research in Values and Philosophy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Italians
ISBN : 9781565181779
Author : Charles L. Killinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313062803
Americans have a voracious appetite for Italy. It remains a primary destination for travel, art history, cuisine, and more. Like no other source, Culture and Customs of Italy engagingly explains the scope of Italy and Italians today to students and general readers in one volume. As well, this book provides the needed context to understand the enormous contributions of Italian Americans in shaping the cultural heritage and current popular culture of the United States. It clearly summarizes the land, people, and history and relates the highlights of a culture that has excelled in so many areas, such as food, sports, literature, the arts, architecture and design, and cinema. The powerful roles of religion and thought, family and gender, holidays, leisure, and media in Italian life are treated in-depth in individual chapters as well. Crucial regional aspects and historical framing of all topics add to the authoritativeness. A chronology, glossary, photos, and maps round out the coverage.
Author : Guido Bonsaver
Publisher : Italian Perspectives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2022-07-25
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ISBN : 9781781888766
This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, folk music, oral and written narrative, and history, which provide new comparative perspectives on the questions surrounding the mutual influence between Italian and U.S. cultures. The volume also showcases new research - quantitative, interpretative, and archival - which contributes to the study of cultural contact. It therefore offers new evidence to answer a question which has long been pivotal in various disciplines and research fields (from historical linguistics to cultural anthropology) - namely, how and to what extent cultural contact can affect long-term historical change?
Author : Mark Naidis
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Page : 558 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 9780030890666
Author : Howard Rosario Marraro
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Page : 89 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : Christopher Dawson
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
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An essential work of European history, this classic study sweeps from the fall of Rome to the dawn of the Renaissance as it shows how Christianity, its leaders, and its institutions changed the face of Western culture.
Author : Saverio Battente
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1648890598
In “The Idea of Sport in Western Culture from Antiquity to the Contemporary Era,” Dr Saverio Battente examines the concept of sport as an element of Western culture. Sport has aided in structuring the collective identities that underpin individual civilisations in the West, and, far from being a merely marginal phenomenon, it has in fact been an essential feature of Western civilisation and culture from antiquity, in its various forms. The starting point of the book is the idea that there is a certain number of universal traits—unchanged across time and different cultures—underlying all sports, even if there are a series of entirely original elements with which sport has been linked over the centuries in specific civilizations. This volume thus makes a comparative analysis of the ancient, modern, and contemporary worlds and various national contexts; longues durées (whose presence transcends anthropological and cultural barriers), divergences, and discontinuities pertaining to the concept of sport are identified and explored. The book also looks at the link between the rise of civilisation and the educational and training function of sport, as well as the connection between a culture’s decline and a growing emphasis on sport as an element of entertainment and spectacle in and of itself.