Download or read book Corsican Fragments written by Matei Candea and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it has also been a focus of French concerns about national unity and identity. Today, Corsica is part of a vibrant Franco-Mediterranean social universe. Starting from an ethnographic study in a Corsican village, Corsican Fragments explores nationalism, language, kinship, and place, as well as popular discourses and concerns about violence, migration, and society. Matei Candea traces ideas about inclusion and exclusion through these different realms, as Corsicans, "Continentals," tourists, and the anthropologist make and unmake connections with one another in their everyday encounters. Candea's evocative and gracefully written account provides new insights into the dilemmas of understanding cultural difference and the difficulties and rewards of fieldwork.

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Download or read book Corsica Picturesque Historical and Social with a Sketch of the Early Life of Napoleon and an Account of the Bonaparte Paoli Pozzo Di Borgo and Other Principal Families written by Ferdinand Gregorovius and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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