A01=Jeremy Boissevain
Author_Jeremy Boissevain
Black Damask
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Collegiate Chapters
Confer
Dingli
Diocesan Priests
Dom Mintoff
ecclesiastical authority
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Face To Face
Fireworks
Government Elementary Schools
Grand Harbour
Installation Ceremony
Labour Leaders
Labour Party
Labour Supporters
Large Family
Local MLA
Maltese Archipelago
Maltese village political dynamics
Maltese Villages
Mediterranean societies
MLP
Nationalists
Parish Priest
parish priest role
political anthropology
Political Party
rural communities research
Saints
Secondary Partiti
social conflict analysis
Socialists
Titular Saint
Wife's Village
Wife’s Village
Young Christian Workers
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367717087
- Weight: 222g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Malta's recent independence was achieved despite a confusion of internal conflicts which must appear puzzling to the outsider. Socialists and Nationalists clash both with each other, and with a Church whose authority is almost medieval. Dr Boissevain has lived for more than two years in Malta and has studied at first hand the conflicting groups in the villages. He examines the importance of the cults of saints and the bitter rivalry between them. The clash of the Church and Labour clubs within the villages and the difficult role of the parish priest are analysed in the framework of Maltese ecclesiastical and secular politics. Both in its vivid description of village festive and political life and in the careful analysis of conflicts and factions, the book makes an important contribution to political anthropology.
Dr Boissevain is Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the University of Montreal.
