Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: looking at margins; 1 Urban peripheries; A courtyard; The making of a slum; The spaces of slums; Slums, disease and crime; Photographing the poor; Narratives from the peripheries: the 1950s and 1960s; Conclusion; 2 Colonies; Women; Colonies as margins; Family snaps and portraits; Anthropology in black and white; Landscapes; Atrocities; Patriots; Conclusion; 3 Souths; Ethnographic encounters; Ritual weeping; East of Eboli
Cold War controversiesDe Martino between history and ethnology; Women, tarantismo and madness; Conclusion; 4 Asylums; The fence; Poverty, class and negation; Dogs, pigs and humans; Inside/outside; Women and madness; Limits of vision; Documentaries; Transcribed voices; Deinstitutionalization and the enduring problem of psychiatric prisons; Conclusion; 5 Nomad camps; Old and new margins; Nomads, migrants or citizens?; Media, vigilantes and politicians; Conclusion; Conclusion: understanding margins; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Five case studies show how different people and places were marginalized and socially excluded as the Italian nation-state was formed
