Donald S Pitkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 129498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald S Pitkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald S |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitkin |
| SIGNATURE | PITKIN D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The House That Giacomo Built
The House that Giacomo Built is the engaging story of the struggle, perseverance, and success of an Italian working-class family in achieving its goals of stability and family unity. It begins with the relentlessly impoverished lives of Giovanni and Giulia in southern Italy at the turn of the century. We then follow the fortunes of their daughter, Maria, and her husband, Giacomo, and their four children, as they continue the struggle to achieve t…
The House that Giacomo Built
Power in the Blood
Proper Peasants
Culture Change, Applied Anthropology and Economic Development
Mediterranean Europe
Marital Property Considerations among Peasants
Donald S. Pitkin, Marital Property Considerations among Peasants: An Italian Example, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1, Modern Community Studies in the Circum-Mediterranean Area (Special Issue) (Jan., 1960), pp. 33-39
Land Tenure and Family Organization in an Italian Village
In a recent paper in this journal Moss and Thomson discussed some functional attributes of the South Italian family.1 The following remarks are concerned rather with change in structural features of families in a South Central Italian community. Of interest to the applied anthropologist is the influence upon forms of social organization of planned change in the areas of property and productivity. Our specific focus here is on the relationship bet…
A Consideration of Asymmetry in the Peasant-City Relationship
When we speak of the role of the city in the structure and functioning of peasant societies we should not think of it the way we would in the case of a tribal society, as something external to the system. Rather the city and peasant are complementary to the extent that while cities may exist and have developed without peasantry, peasants, by and large, have existence only in relation to cities (Redfield 1953: 31). This interrelationship is one th…
Mediterranean Europe
Land Tenure and Family Organization in an Italian Village
In a recent paper in this journal Moss and Thomson discussed some functional attributes of the South Italian family.1 The following remarks are concerned rather with change in structural features of families in a South Central Italian community. Of interest to the applied anthropologist is the influence upon forms of social organization of planned change in the areas of property and productivity. Our specific focus here is on the relationship bet…
Marital Property Considerations among Peasants
Donald S. Pitkin, Marital Property Considerations among Peasants: An Italian Example, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1, Modern Community Studies in the Circum-Mediterranean Area (Special Issue) (Jan., 1960), pp. 33-39
A Consideration of Asymmetry in the Peasant-City Relationship
When we speak of the role of the city in the structure and functioning of peasant societies we should not think of it the way we would in the case of a tribal society, as something external to the system. Rather the city and peasant are complementary to the extent that while cities may exist and have developed without peasantry, peasants, by and large, have existence only in relation to cities (Redfield 1953: 31). This interrelationship is one th…
Land Tenure and Family Organization in an Italian Village
In a recent paper in this journal Moss and Thomson discussed some functional attributes of the South Italian family.1 The following remarks are concerned rather with change in structural features of families in a South Central Italian community. Of interest to the applied anthropologist is the influence upon forms of social organization of planned change in the areas of property and productivity. Our specific focus here is on the relationship bet…
A Consideration of Asymmetry in the Peasant-City Relationship
When we speak of the role of the city in the structure and functioning of peasant societies we should not think of it the way we would in the case of a tribal society, as something external to the system. Rather the city and peasant are complementary to the extent that while cities may exist and have developed without peasantry, peasants, by and large, have existence only in relation to cities (Redfield 1953: 31). This interrelationship is one th…
Marital Property Considerations among Peasants
Donald S. Pitkin, Marital Property Considerations among Peasants: An Italian Example, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1, Modern Community Studies in the Circum-Mediterranean Area (Special Issue) (Jan., 1960), pp. 33-39
Mediterranean Europe
Culture Change, Applied Anthropology and Economic Development
Proper Peasants
Power in the Blood
The House that Giacomo Built
The House That Giacomo Built
The House that Giacomo Built is the engaging story of the struggle, perseverance, and success of an Italian working-class family in achieving its goals of stability and family unity. It begins with the relentlessly impoverished lives of Giovanni and Giulia in southern Italy at the turn of the century. We then follow the fortunes of their daughter, Maria, and her husband, Giacomo, and their four children, as they continue the struggle to achieve t…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change
Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Historical and Environmental Studies (4 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)