Town and Country in Locorotondo Book

	Foreword
	Illustrations
1	Introduction	1
2	Locorotondo in Time	14
3	Peasant Lives	23
	An Interview with Marteine	23
	Changing Values About Work and Agriculture	24
	Rural Landscape and Human Settlement	26
	Small Scale Agriculture and the Year Round	27
	Box 3.1 - Recipe for Fava Bean Puree	29
4	Men, Women, Work and the Rural Family	37
	The Man With the Shovel, The Woman With the Spoon	37
	Marriage Settlements	39
	Courtship and Engagement	42
	Changing Expectations	45
	Children	46
	Old People	48
	Neighbors	49
	Rural Systems of Belief	51
	Box 4.1 - The Tale of St. Martin	52
5	Artisan Lives, Artisan Values	57
	Social Class and Social Change in Town	57
	A Conversation with Ciccio	59
	Before the Great Artisan Crisis	61
	Box 5.1 - Tete and Tutuccio	70
	The Artisan Crisis and its Aftermath	72
6	The Old and New Elite	79
	A Conversation with Grazia	79
	The Old Elite	80
	The Rise of a New Middle Class	85
	Changing Values and Ideas	88
7	Ordinary People, Paperwork, and Authority	92
	A Conversation With Mario	92
	Local Political and Administrative Institutions	94
	Schooling and Civil Service Examinations	97
	Personalism	98
	The Official System and the Real System	99
	Patron-Client Relationships	100
	Sidestepping Official Regulations	103
8	Locorotondo in Southern Italian Perspective	106
	How the Locorotondesi Distinguished Themselves From Other Peoples	106
	How Locorotondesi Talk About Themselves Within Their Region	113
	Some Observations on How Locorotondo May Be Distinguished From Other Places	115
	References	122