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17. For useful discussions of life in Naples, see Belmonte 1979; Broccolini 1999; Goddard 1996; Pardo 1996. It is hard to compare the nostalgic reconstruction of a largely vanished local Roman malavita with a present-day phenomenon in another city, but some features appear to be common to both.
i S. He was also later to try to claim his party's and his own responsibility for securing the eviction of the squatters from the Angelo Mai school, presenting this as a victory for the people of Monti and a failure of the Veltroni administration. See the press statement that he and his fellow party member and city councilor Marco Marsilio, also deeply involved in the Via degli Ibernesi case, released on 22 May 2006. In this statement, they described those squatters as representing "the extremists and the agit-prop [people] of the [leftist-inspired] social centers" (gli estremisti e gli agit-prop dei centri sociali) and called on the city administration to take action to protect other spaces which, they claimed, are "the sole bulwark of real tradition in the area" (l'unico baluardo di very tradizione nella zona)-a position that underscores their instrumental understanding of heritage and its social significance.
19. On "integralism," see Holmes 2000; Stolcke 1995. For a discussion of the increasing interest of exponents of local cultures in collective self-production for tourism, an exploitation of the visitors' searching for cultural distinction that does not necessarily conflict with a simultaneous distrust or dislike of foreigners and that might also be encouraged by the subsidiarity of supranational organizations such as the European Union, see, by way of a brief but suggestive comment, Simonicca 1997, 247.
20. Maceratini represented the Far Right of his party, having been a local activist in the nearby Colle Oppio neighborhood with the old Movimento sociale italiano, the link between Mussolini's Fascists and the present-day Alleanza nazionale. By this time, however, he had gained considerable international respectability; he always presents himself, said a local left-wing political activist, "in jacket and tie" (in giacca e cravatta), but he represents the more confrontational elements in the party.
2 1. At my urging, two fellow anthropologists were in attendance, as were five anthropology students from the University of Rome.
22. This sale was the subject of a question in the national parliament: Interrogazione a risposta scritta 4-09211, presented by Vincenzo Fragala on 4 March 2004, in session no. 433. The text can be found by going to http://legislature.camera.it/_dati/leg14/lavori/stenografici/btestiatti/ and then clicking on 4-09211.htm. (Accessed 15 May 2008.)
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1. See Stolcke 1995 on "cultural fundamentalism" in this sense; see also Herzfeld 2004, 169, for an illustration.
2. On officializing strategies, see Bourdieu 1977, 38-40.
3. For accounts of this community, see AGFE 2005; Herzfeld 2006.
4. Herzfeld 2003. It was the comparison between Greek and Italian nationalism that Stanley Tambiah, to whom this book is dedicated, insisted I not abandon in order to pursue new and possibly uninformed interests in the anthropology of Thailand.
5. Anthropologists and sociologists have made substantial empirical inroads into the conventional view of globalization as necessarily entailing cultural homogenization. The most useful critiques oppose such simplistic formulations on the basis of detailed ethnographic evidence to the contrary. See especially Burawoy 2000; Fisher and Downey 2oo6b, 22; Watson 2005.
6. Napolitano's discussion of the continuing evangelization in Rome of Catholic immigrants from Latin America (2007) suggests a somewhat similar pattern of paternalistic subjection, while also pointing to the possibility of alternative understandings by these new recruits to the local labor force.
7. Guidoni 1990, x-xi.
8. For a useful discussion of the strategy-tactic distinction, see de Certeau 1984, 52-60.
9. See especially Patriarca's helpful historical