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Author Trundle, Catherine.

Title Americans in Tuscany : charity, compassion, and belonging / Catherine Trundle
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series New directions in anthropology ; volume 36
New directions in anthropology ; v. 36.
Contents Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Framing Charity and Migration; Chapter 1 A Civilized Journey; Part II Forging Charitable Communities; Chapter 2 Intimate Lives and the Art of Belonging; Chapter 3 Food, Community and Incorporation Work; Chapter 4 Ethical Engagement; Part III The Moral Work of Charity; Chapter 5 'Getting the Work Done', or an Ethos of Disinterested Equality; Chapter 6 Compassion and Empathy without Understanding; Chapter 7 Accountability, Cynicism and Hope; Epilogue Charity, Reflexivity, Belonging; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and new cultural terrain, many women struggle to build local lives. In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means by which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. This book traces women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women immigrants -- Italy -- Tuscany -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Italy -- Tuscany
Americans -- Italy -- Tuscany -- Social conditions
Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Italy -- Tuscany
Social service -- Italy -- Tuscany
Compassion -- Italy -- Tuscany
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Italy -- Tuscany
Social integration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Americans -- Social conditions
Assimilation (Sociology)
Compassion
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation
Social integration
Social service
Women immigrants -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Tuscany (Italy) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject Italy -- Tuscany
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782383703
1782383700
1782383697
9781782383697