Book-Reviews

Joseph Agassi

doi:10.1080/03906701.1991.9971104

Book-Reviews

Joseph Agassi^*

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Faculty of Humanities

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	213-232
Number of pages	20
Journal	International Review of Sociology
Volume	2
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.1991.9971104
State	Published - 1991

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note = "Funding Information: The recent and praiseworthy first translation of John Davis's book into Italian - i.e. the language of the country to which the rural society of the deep-south that is the object of his book belongs - represents a useful opportunity in more than one aspect. A first and obvious consideration concerns the delay with which the Italian publishing industry has issued a book which has long since enjoyed esteem and found a publisher in Great Britain. For a long time scarce attention has unfortunately been paid in Italy to the works of a sociological character written by foreigners on aspects of Italian society. It might be wondered whether this was due to a misplaced nationalistic pride, too touchy about the possible negative facets that might emerge from an analysis of Italian society made by foreigners; or to an attitude of superficial disdain towards authors and works with whom a personal comparison was avoided. However, this situation seems nowadays to be changing. The publishing of Davis's book, funded by the Commune of Pisticci itself, seems an auspicious sign. Secondly, the translation of Davis's book constitutes an opportunity for a critical reflection on this stimulating work about a quarter of a century since the field research that formed its basis and almost twenty years since its original publication in English. The time that has elapsed since then permits a better understanding of the characteristics of this work against the general background of the analyses on traditional societies and on development processes that preceded and followed it. Trying to summarize in the extreme, it should be remembered that Davis in the first part of his work describes the picture of the socio-cultural relations of the society in question",

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