A Border Island on the Crossroads of History

Lampedusa and the Mediterranean

Dionigi Albera (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-437-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Dionigi Albera is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His research interests include migration, domestic organisation, pilgrimage and interfaith mixing. He has co-edited several volumes with a Mediterranean focus such as Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries (Indian University Press, 2012), and New Pathways in Pilgrimage Studies (Taylor and Francis, 2016).

List of Illustrations

Introduction: The World-Island

Chapter 1. A Desert Island

Chapter 2. In Ariosto’s Archipelago

Chapter 3. The Virgin and the Marabout

Chapter 4. The Enchantment of Lampedusa

Chapter 5. The Travels of the Virgin

Chapter 6. The Temple of Perfect Tolerance

Chapter 7. Hermits, Physiocrats and Adventurers

Chapter 8. The Myth Goes Dormant

Conclusion: The Theatre of the Frontier

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations ; 15
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83695-437-9 / 1836954379
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-437-8 / 9781836954378
Zustand	Neuware