La «violence» du silence dans la tradition sicilienne

Silence as Violence in Traditional Sicily Omertà, or the law of silence, which we associate nowadays with the Mafia, was formerly a traditional peasant response to the violence they endured collectively or as individuals. The author underlines the reasons for the emergence of this peculiar form of aggression - «silence» - and its consequences on the antagonism between the peasants - «the berets» - and the landowners - «the hats» - with the help of six allegorical stories (parità) collected among the peasants of eastern Sicily by S. A. Guastella and published in 1884

Aesthetics · Aggression · Art · Ethnology · Humanities · Peasant · Political science · Silence · Historical and Literary Analyses · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology