Jaro Stacul obtained a Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Swansea, and currently is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

"This is all fascinating, well documented, and the relationship between local activism and the larger political movements is sensibly analysed…Overall this is a revealing study of the power of locality in framing experience and action." · JRAI"...in focusing attention on the importance of deconstructing localisms, Stacul issues an important challenge to students of any aspect of Italian society." · Modern Italy

• List of IllustrationsNote on LanguagePreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introducing LocalismChapter 2. The Setting and its Historical BackgroundChapter 3. A Private Space: The Present-day Organisation of Village LifeChapter 4. Knowing One’s Land: Hunters and PoachersChapter 5. The View from Below: Constructions of OthernessChapter 6. Natural Time, Political Time: Representations of HistoryChapter 7. Local Politics in Theory and PracticeChapter 8. Conclusions: Localism RevisitedAppendicesReferencesIndex

Jaro Stacul obtained a Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Swansea, and currently is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

"This is all fascinating, well documented, and the relationship between local activism and the larger political movements is sensibly analysed…Overall this is a revealing study of the power of locality in framing experience and action." · JRAI"...in focusing attention on the importance of deconstructing localisms, Stacul issues an important challenge to students of any aspect of Italian society." · Modern Italy

• List of IllustrationsNote on LanguagePreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introducing LocalismChapter 2. The Setting and its Historical BackgroundChapter 3. A Private Space: The Present-day Organisation of Village LifeChapter 4. Knowing One’s Land: Hunters and PoachersChapter 5. The View from Below: Constructions of OthernessChapter 6. Natural Time, Political Time: Representations of HistoryChapter 7. Local Politics in Theory and PracticeChapter 8. Conclusions: Localism RevisitedAppendicesReferencesIndex

Jaro Stacul obtained a Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Swansea, and currently is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

"This is all fascinating, well documented, and the relationship between local activism and the larger political movements is sensibly analysed…Overall this is a revealing study of the power of locality in framing experience and action." · JRAI"...in focusing attention on the importance of deconstructing localisms, Stacul issues an important challenge to students of any aspect of Italian society." · Modern Italy

• List of IllustrationsNote on LanguagePreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introducing LocalismChapter 2. The Setting and its Historical BackgroundChapter 3. A Private Space: The Present-day Organisation of Village LifeChapter 4. Knowing One’s Land: Hunters and PoachersChapter 5. The View from Below: Constructions of OthernessChapter 6. Natural Time, Political Time: Representations of HistoryChapter 7. Local Politics in Theory and PracticeChapter 8. Conclusions: Localism RevisitedAppendicesReferencesIndex