A Border Island on the Crossroads of History

Lampedusa and the Mediterranean

von Dionigi Albera

216 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Lampedusa evokes the crossings made by migrants and refugees and its name is associated with the sad sequence of shipwrecks and deaths in the central Mediterranean. For several centuries, Lampedusa has been an uninhabited land at the frontier of two conflicting worlds: between Africa and Europe and between Christianity and Islam. It was a stopover for sailors and a zone of religious truce. This book follows an ethnographic account of the social life on this small island, exploring its history articulated with the present where thousands of migrants and tourists cohabit both well and poorly in a few square miles.

• Reihe: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781836954378
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2026
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books