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User Review - thcson - LibraryThingI thought this book should have included more ethnographic narratives of individual villagers' lives. The author describes their mistrustful general ethos in clear terms, but the details he gives ... Read full review
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User Review - ben_a - LibraryThingGrim and revealing. I read it on my way out to vacation in Maui -- not an intended irony, but a significant one. The peasant story about the "3 answers" is an education in itself. Questions: 1. How is ... Read full review
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| Title | The moral basis of a backward society Free Press paperback Sociology (Free Press) |
| Author | Edward C. Banfield |
| Photographs by | Edward C. Banfield |
| Contributor | Edward C. Banfield |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Free Press, 1958 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Apr 10, 2007 |
| Length | 204 pages |
| Subjects | › › Community life History / Europe / Italy Italy Italy, Southern Psychology / Social Psychology Social Science / General Social Science / Sociology / General Social Science / Sociology / Rural Social groups |
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