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Fieldwork in Italy confirmed many of the things I had read in European ethnographies, but it also taught me to treat those ethnographies with caution. I was struck by the poverty of theory as far as urban anthropology was concerned, little of which had equipped me 40 Being There for this kind of encounter. During the entire 18 months in Perugia, I never once heard anyone mention ‘honour’ or ‘shame’, which were still regarded in the anthropological literature (if increasingly doubtfully), as the key values of Mediterranean society (Peristiany 1966).
PCI activists in Perugia took a keen interest in Margaret Thatcher’s trade union reforms, particularly the miners’ strike, recognising long before I did the significance of its outcome for the future of the European left. The concept of ‘growth without jobs’ and the ‘twothirds society’ – with one-third of the population consisting of a permanent underclass of the long-term unemployed – were being debated by rank-and-file party members even before these ideas had entered mainstream political debate in Britain.