Talk:List of people from Sicily

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Published work on Sicilian ethnic identity

Sicilians ‘pass’ Narroll’s ‘test’ and can be considered to form a distinctive ethnic group within the Italian nation-state. Palermitans’ sense of simultaneity is expressed on both local and regional levels, but not on the national one. The imagined boundary between Sicily and the rest of Italy is strengthened as Sicilians distance themselves mentally or physically from their homeland, and by opposition to the inner ‘other’. This opposition is constructed (or at the very least manipulated) by Italian elites for specific political and economic purposes. However, the Palermitan response implies an antithesis that diffuses a possible national crisis; on the one hand, Palermitans admit their economic inferiority, on the other, they perceive their culture as more complex and rich, especially compared to the North. Despite this discursive superiority, the Sicilian struggle for autonomy should be understood as a means of coping with inferiority.

Pardalis, Stergios. TERRONI AND POLENTONI: WHERE DOES THE TRUTH LIE? AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ETHNICITY IN PALERMO (SICILY), ITALY. Diss. Durham University, 2009. ^[1]

This is a peer reviewed publication that specifically addresses the issue of Sicilian ethnicity and assesses it against Narroll's test. Please provide your thoughts on how we can best integrate this perspective.Paolorausch (talk) 10:26, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/289/

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