La condizione contadina in Campania. Proposta di un’analisi storico-antropologica

The work sets out to address the reality of the Campanian peasantry not only through its economic and working conditions, but also by considering the social structures, the power relations, the forms of family and community organisation and the cultural heritage of rural populations. A central element of the approach is the reading of peasant civilisation as the historical expression of a subaltern class, bearer of experiences, knowledge, traditions and forms of solidarity that the processes of modernisation and dominant economic development have progressively marginalised and helped to destroy. The research therefore also takes on a political and cultural meaning: recovering the memory of rural populations, reconstructing their history, their organisations, their social struggles and their relationship with the workers’ and peasants’ movement, restoring historical dignity to a world often left out of the official narrative of the development of southern Italy.