The creation of value:Terra mattain anthropological perspective
David Moss
Comparison is a basic strategy in anthropology for analysing social and cultural organisation revealing similarities differences by unexpected juxtapositions. Here I use it two ways. First, treating Terra matta as valuable, explore how its value, history mythology are created the course of passage through different hands, taking classic ethnography kula model. Second, compare Vincenzo Rabito's original typescript with surviving fragments his other writings to suggest that an even more remarkable creation than we have hitherto taken be.
Journal of Modern Italian Studies