Culture And Customs Of Italy

Author : Charles L. Killinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313062803

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Culture and Customs of Italy by Charles L. Killinger Pdf

Americans have a voracious appetite for Italy. It remains a primary destination for travel, art history, cuisine, and more. Like no other source, Culture and Customs of Italy engagingly explains the scope of Italy and Italians today to students and general readers in one volume. As well, this book provides the needed context to understand the enormous contributions of Italian Americans in shaping the cultural heritage and current popular culture of the United States. It clearly summarizes the land, people, and history and relates the highlights of a culture that has excelled in so many areas, such as food, sports, literature, the arts, architecture and design, and cinema. The powerful roles of religion and thought, family and gender, holidays, leisure, and media in Italian life are treated in-depth in individual chapters as well. Crucial regional aspects and historical framing of all topics add to the authoritativeness. A chronology, glossary, photos, and maps round out the coverage.

Author : Culture Smart!,Barry Tomalin
Publisher : Kuperard
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787028777

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Italy - Culture Smart! by Culture Smart!,Barry Tomalin Pdf

Don't just see the sights—get to know the people. Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, stunningly beautiful landscapes, the glory of its art and architecture, the richness and variety of its food, the elegance of its design and fashion, and the vitality and charm of its people. Italian style and culture have been exported all over the world. At home, however, Italian society and politics are facing challenges as the country struggles to maintain its standard of living, the stability of its currency, and its ability to provide jobs. The influx of refugees across the Mediterranean is putting pressure on both its social fabric and its economy. Culture Smart! Italy is an insider s guide to their daily lives, passions, and preoccupations. It introduces you to their history and culture, and provides vital information and practical tips to help smooth your path in different social situations. Have a richer and more meaningful experience abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on history, values, attitudes, and traditions will help you to better understand your hosts, while tips on etiquette and communicating will help you to navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.

Author : Barry Tomalin
Publisher : Bravo Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Etiquette
ISBN : 9781857338300

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Italy - Culture Smart! by Barry Tomalin Pdf

Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, its stunningly beautiful landscapes, the glory of its art and architecture, the richness and variety of its food, the elegance of its design and fashion, and the vitality and charm of its people. Italian style and culture have been exported all over the world. What is it like at home? Almost ten years after the 2008 banking crisis, Italy struggles to maintain its standard of living, the stability of the currency, and its ability to provide jobs for its school leavers and university graduates, many of whom now leave to work elsewhere in Europe. In addition, the influx of refugees from southeast Europe and across the Mediterranean is putting pressure on both its security and its economy. How are traditional Italian society and politics changing to deal with these challenges, with its most famous political personality of the last ten years, the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, still apparently waiting in the wings? The Italians are the most European-minded of nations, having emerged from a long history of regional fragmentation." Culture Smart! Italy" introduces you to their history and culture and offers an insider s guide to their daily lives, passions, and preoccupations. This is your chance to get to know them better."

Author : Charles Abbott
Publisher : Bravo Limited
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781857335385

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Italy - Culture Smart! by Charles Abbott Pdf

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * do's, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken "Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel "... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel "...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer "...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine "...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Alberto Capatti,Massimo Montanari
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231509046

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Italian Cuisine by Alberto Capatti,Massimo Montanari Pdf

Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great variety of culinary practices reflects a history long dominated by regionalism and political division, and has led to the common conception of Italian food as a mosaic of regional customs rather than a single tradition. Nonetheless, this magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula. Alberto Capatti and Massimo Montanari uncover a network of culinary customs, food lore, and cooking practices, dating back as far as the Middle Ages, that are identifiably Italian: o Italians used forks 300 years before other Europeans, possibly because they were needed to handle pasta, which is slippery and dangerously hot. o Italians invented the practice of chilling drinks and may have invented ice cream. o Italian culinary practice influenced the rest of Europe to place more emphasis on vegetables and less on meat. o Salad was a distinctive aspect of the Italian meal as early as the sixteenth century. The authors focus on culinary developments in the late medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras, aided by a wealth of cookbooks produced throughout the early modern period. They show how Italy's culinary identities emerged over the course of the centuries through an exchange of information and techniques among geographical regions and social classes. Though temporally, spatially, and socially diverse, these cuisines refer to a common experience that can be described as Italian. Thematically organized around key issues in culinary history and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today.

Author : Alessandro Falassi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Etiquette
ISBN : OCLC:55471806

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Culture Shock! by Alessandro Falassi Pdf

Author : Claudia Gioseffi
Publisher : World Trade Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1885073348

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Passport Italy by Claudia Gioseffi Pdf

This pocket guide to business, culture and etiquette is designed for international business people and non-business travelers. This comprehensive reference will help travelers to Italy learn to avoid cultural faux pas and understand the country's values and belief systems. Illustrated.

Author : Andrew Whittaker
Publisher : Thorogood Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9781854186287

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Italy by Andrew Whittaker Pdf

Speak the Culture: Italy offers a rich and engaging insight into the events, people and movements that have shaped Italy and the Italians. A guidebook can show you where to go, a phrase-book what to say, but only Speak the Culture: Italy will lead you to the nation's soul. The Italian character is complex, contradictory, alluring and infinitely variable: heirs to the greatest empire of the ancient world but almost ungovernable; cradle of western civilization as well as the Mafia; maestros of modern design, mired in old-fashioned bureaucracy; epicentre of the Catholic Church and exemplars of la dolce vita. Where do you start? Giotto? Caravaggio? Murky Etruscan tombs or the mighty Roman Pantheon? Speak the Culture: Italy sifts through a sprawling 3,000 year saga and makes sense of it, dissecting architecture, music, food, art, literature, cinema, family and much more. Culture is covered in its broadest sense, extending into every aspect of Italian life--food and drink, religion, politics, sport, manners, character and so on. While the Italian peninsula has its ancient history, it's been a unified nation for less than 150 years. Lo Stivale, or the famous Boot, is young: the nuances of strong, surviving regional identities are important and revealed. Taken as a whole, Speak the Culture: Italy gives you an insight into what it means to be Italian, but it's also a book to dip into, to learn, for instance, about Giuseppe Verdi, Sophia Loren or Umberto Eco. Easily read and beautifully illustrated, this, the fourth in the Speak the Cultureseries, offers an intimate understanding of Italian life and culture for new residents, second home-owners, holidaymakers, business travelers, students and lovers of Italy everywhere.

Author : Guido Bonsaver,Alessandro Carlucci,Matthew Reza
Publisher : Italian Perspectives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781888760

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Italy and the USA by Guido Bonsaver,Alessandro Carlucci,Matthew Reza Pdf

This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, folk music, oral and written narrative, and history, which provide new comparative perspectives on the questions surrounding the mutual influence between Italian and U.S. cultures. The volume also showcases new research - quantitative, interpretative, and archival - which contributes to the study of cultural contact. It therefore offers new evidence to answer a question which has long been pivotal in various disciplines and research fields (from historical linguistics to cultural anthropology) - namely, how and to what extent cultural contact can affect long-term historical change?

Author : Douglas Harper,Patrizia Faccioli
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226317267

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The Italian Way by Douglas Harper,Patrizia Faccioli Pdf

Outside of Italy, the country’s culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as The Italian Way makes clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in the daily activities of Italians from all walks of life. In this beautifully illustrated book, Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli present a fascinating and colorful look at the Italian table. The Italian Way focuses on two dozen families in the city of Bologna, elegantly weaving together Harper’s outsider perspective with Faccioli’s intimate knowledge of the local customs. The authors interview and observe these families as they go shopping for ingredients, cook together, and argue over who has to wash the dishes. Throughout, the authors elucidate the guiding principle of the Italian table—a delicate balance between the structure of tradition and the joy of improvisation. With its bite-sized history of food in Italy, including the five-hundred-year-old story of the country’s cookbooks, and Harper’s mouth-watering photographs, The Italian Way is a rich repast—insightful, informative, and inviting.

Author : Peggy Kenna,Sondra Lacy
Publisher : N T C Business Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business communication
ISBN : UOM:39076002013618

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Business Italy by Peggy Kenna,Sondra Lacy Pdf

Business Italy offers a smooth and problem-free transition between the American and Italian business cultures. A concise, at - a - glance comparison of business styles, practices and social customs, this book will bring you quickly up to speed on communication style, business etiquette, body language and non-verbal cues, dicision making, negotiating & contracting.

Author : Barry Tomalin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Travel
ISBN : 886849180X

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Italy. The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Barry Tomalin Pdf

Author : Massimo Montanari
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231160841

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Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or, Food and the Nation by Massimo Montanari Pdf

How regional Italian cuisine became the main ingredient in the nation's political and cultural development.

Author : Stefania Buccini
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271041193

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Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825 by Stefania Buccini Pdf

Author : Fabio Parasecoli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313085741

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Food Culture in Italy by Fabio Parasecoli Pdf

There is keen interest in the exquisite yet simple Italian cuisine and Italian culture. This volume provides an intimate look at how Italians cook, eat, and think about food today. It describes the cornucopia of foodstuffs and classic ingredients. An overview of the typical daily routine of meals and snacks gives a good feel for the everyday life. The changing roles of women are explored with a discussion of the inroads that convenience foods are making. In addition, the current concerns about the food supply, the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, and the slow food movement are tied in to the debates on these issues in the United States. Food is one of the main reasons why many Americans travel to Italy. Yet, the fascination with Italian cuisine is not all about health or taste. There is much more to it. Italian food is perceived and portrayed in the media as representing a whole lifestyle: Italians live la dolce vita, leisurely eating and drinking with friends and families, families are still important, and communities are close knit. The reality of Italian society is more complex, and this volume offers a balanced view of Italian culture and identity through its foodways.