Pier Paolo Viazzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 161044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pier Paolo Viazzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pier Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Viazzo |
| SIGNATURE | VIAZZO P P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Commenti a ' Bronislaw Malinowski, l'antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo ' di Antonino Colajanni: Con una risposta dell’autore
Comments on “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” by Antonino Colajanni, with contributions by Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo, with a response from the author
A scuola dall'antropologo: Rileggere Il formaggio e i vermi di Carlo Ginzburg, quarant'anni dopo. Con una postilla di Carlo Ginzburg
Commento alla nuova edizione del volume di Carlo Ginzburg, Il formaggio e i vermi, Milano, Adelphi, 2019, pp. 231. Con una postilla di Carlo Ginzburg
Families and the Elderly along the Shores of the Mediterranean: Old and New Forms of Relatedness
Le vieillissement de la population impose des défis de plus en plus semblables aux sociétés situées d'un côté et de l'autre de la Méditerranée, car la famille y est encore un acteur majeur de la protection sociale. Les données sociodémographiques et ethnographiques examinées dans cet article montrent que les anciennes manières de se soutenir, comme la pratique de la co-résidence dans les familles élargies, jouent toujours un rôle important. Cepen…
Negotiating the Mountains. Foreign Immigration and Cultural Change in the Italian Alps
Severely affected during the twentieth century by depopulation and neglect, the Alps also suffered an erosion of their cultural heritage. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, population has begun to grow in many areas, mainly due to the settlement in the uplands of both “highlanders by choice” (largely youth dissatisfied with city life) and “highlanders by necessity” (economic migrants). In recent years, however, the Alps hav…
Socio-Demographic Changes and Transmission of Tangible and Intangible Resources: Ethnographic Glimpses From the Western Italian Alps
This article looks at the transmission of tangible and intangible resources from an anthropological perspective and presents two case-studies that provide both interesting commonalities and significant contrasts: the Occitan-speaking (and predominantly Waldensian) upper Pellice Valley, in the western Piedmontese Alps, and Macugnaga, a Walser settlement in the north-eastern Piedmontese Alps. Both localities host linguistic minorities and, demograp…
Cambiamenti socio-demografici e trasmissione delle risorse materiali e immateriali: Prospettive etnografiche dalle Alpi occidentali italiane
Questo articolo esamina la trasmissione delle risorse materiali e immateriali da una prospettiva antropologica e analizza due casi di studio che presentano tanto interessanti elementi in comune, quanto significative differenze: l’alta Val Pellice, territorio di lingua occitana e a prevalenza valdese nelle Alpi piemontesi occidentali, e Macugnaga, un insediamento di origine walser nelle Alpi piemontesi nord-orientali. Entrambe le località sono com…
The history of families and households: Comparative European dimensions
Les « nouvelles formes de famille » en Italie: Entre convergences morphologiques et persistances culturelles
En Italie, depuis le milieu du xx e siècle, la famille a connu dans un premier temps un processus de « nucléarisation », suivi de multiples métamorphoses liées au déclin progressif du mariage. D'aucuns interprètent ces tendances comme la preuve d'une convergence vers des valeurs Nord-Européennes ; pour d'autres chercheurs, des différences culturelles persistent, dont témoigne la force bien plus contraignante des liens de parenté. L'article offre …
Of kinship decline: The west and the rest
Comment on Pier Giorgio Solinas, Sahlins, la parentela, essere e non essere: non è un problema, Anuac. Vol. 4, n° 1, dicembre 2015: 189-195
The Role of the Family in Mountain Pastoralism—Change and Continuity: Ethnographic Evidence from the Western Italian Alps
The distinctive features of mountain pastoral families in the past, and their adaptations to environmental and economic constraints, have been the subject of many comparative studies. Less effort has been invested in exploring the role of the family in today's pastoral economy and identifying structural and cultural continuities within the dramatic changes of the last decades. Our ethnographic fieldwork in several valleys of the Italian Western A…
Approfittare del vuoto”: Prospettive antropologiche su neo-popolamento e spazi di creatività culturale in area alpina
Dopo un secolo di ininterrotto declino demografico in molti settori dell’arco alpino si sta manifestando un’inversione di tendenza che appare sorprendente soprattutto nelle Alpi francesi e italiane, dove lo spopolamento era stato particolarmente severo sin dalla seconda metà del XIX secolo. In una stimolante analisi dei mutamenti socio-demografici in un distretto delle Alpi francesi, Cognard (2006) ha suggerito che questo processo di spopolamento…
Taking advantage of emptiness”: Anthropological perspectives on mountain repopulation and spaces of cultural creativity in the Alpine area
After a century of unbroken demographic decline there are signs in many sectors of the Alpine crescent of a trend reversal which looks especially surprising in those areas (notably the French and Italian Alps) that had been affected by severe depopulation since the second half of the 19th century. In a stimulating analysis of socio-demographic changes in a French Alpine district, Cognard (2006) surmises that depopulation, however disastrous in ma…
Borders et frontières: Définitions théoriques et expérience subjective d’un concept à géométrie variable
perception de la frontière franco-italienne chez les Italiens de Grenoble
Family, kinship and welfare provision in Europe, past and present: Commonalities and divergences
The realization that European family forms are failing to converge as predicted by modernization theory has led many scholars to suspect that the broad regional differences detected by historians persist in the present and are likely to influence future developments. This article outlines some relevant hypotheses prompted by historical studies about the role of family and kinship as sources of social security and analyses the results of comparati…
Crossing the boundary: Peasants, shepherds, and servants in a western Alpine community
In the historical and anthropological literature, western Alps servants were widely assumed to be few in number, and the importance of the institution of service therefore negligible. This study combines historical-demographic and ethnographic methods to investigate whether this was true of a community in the Italian western Alps with a mixed population of peasants and transhumant shepherds. Surprisingly, a valuable 1951 census reveals that seemi…
Politiche della morte e concezioni della vita in Palestina: Rassegna di studi
What's so special about the Mediterranean? Thirty years of research on household and family in Italy
This article discusses the 'Mediterranean model' of household formation proposed by Laslett and others in the early 1980s and argues that the notion of a Mediterranean culture area has been used in significantly different ways by family historians and social anthropologists. Drawing its materials mainly from research conducted on Italy, it examines the changing relationships through time between nuptiality and household composition, the extent an…
Anthropology, Family History, and the Concept of Strategy
In this essay, we consider family history as a common field of substantive and theoretical interest shaped by contacts among several disciplines. These disciplines obviously include social history and population studies, but also - and rather prominently - social anthropology. One major component of the growth of family history has been the increasing amount of attention that historians pay to topics such as marriage, kinship, and the family, whi…
Storia delle Alpi e antropologia. Osservazioni in margine a un nuovo libro di Jon Mathieu
L'alpeggio e il mercato. Qualche osservazione introduttiva
Introduzione all'antropologia storica
The Peasantry of Europe
Les modèles alpins de mortalité infantile
The evidence presented in this article shows that from the mid-18th century up to the early 20th century babies and young children tended to have a more favourable mortality experience in the upland regions of the Alpine crescent than in the adjacent hilly and flat areas. Although several explanations have been advanced, most scholars are inclined to believe that the lower levels of infant mortality displayed by the Alpine area were primarily acc…
Child care, infant mortality and the impact of legislation: The case of Florence's foundling hospital, 1840–1940
Un examen attentif du fonctionnement des hôpitaux pour enfants trouvés offre une des meilleurs méthodes d'évaluation de la qualité des soins donnés aux enfants dans le passé et de l'impact des mesures prises, en matière médicale, administrative ou juridique, dans l'intention d'améliorer les chances de survie des nourrissons et des jeunes enfants. Dans cet article est presentee l'évolution de la mortalité infantile à Florence, dans le cadre de l'h…
Sacrificed for Honor. Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control
What's so special about the Mediterranean? Thirty years of research on household and family in Italy
This article discusses the 'Mediterranean model' of household formation proposed by Laslett and others in the early 1980s and argues that the notion of a Mediterranean culture area has been used in significantly different ways by family historians and social anthropologists. Drawing its materials mainly from research conducted on Italy, it examines the changing relationships through time between nuptiality and household composition, the extent an…
Family, kinship and welfare provision in Europe, past and present: Commonalities and divergences
The realization that European family forms are failing to converge as predicted by modernization theory has led many scholars to suspect that the broad regional differences detected by historians persist in the present and are likely to influence future developments. This article outlines some relevant hypotheses prompted by historical studies about the role of family and kinship as sources of social security and analyses the results of comparati…
Anthropology, Family History, and the Concept of Strategy
In this essay, we consider family history as a common field of substantive and theoretical interest shaped by contacts among several disciplines. These disciplines obviously include social history and population studies, but also - and rather prominently - social anthropology. One major component of the growth of family history has been the increasing amount of attention that historians pay to topics such as marriage, kinship, and the family, whi…
Negotiating the Mountains. Foreign Immigration and Cultural Change in the Italian Alps
Severely affected during the twentieth century by depopulation and neglect, the Alps also suffered an erosion of their cultural heritage. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, population has begun to grow in many areas, mainly due to the settlement in the uplands of both “highlanders by choice” (largely youth dissatisfied with city life) and “highlanders by necessity” (economic migrants). In recent years, however, the Alps hav…
Approfittare del vuoto”: Prospettive antropologiche su neo-popolamento e spazi di creatività culturale in area alpina
Dopo un secolo di ininterrotto declino demografico in molti settori dell’arco alpino si sta manifestando un’inversione di tendenza che appare sorprendente soprattutto nelle Alpi francesi e italiane, dove lo spopolamento era stato particolarmente severo sin dalla seconda metà del XIX secolo. In una stimolante analisi dei mutamenti socio-demografici in un distretto delle Alpi francesi, Cognard (2006) ha suggerito che questo processo di spopolamento…
Taking advantage of emptiness”: Anthropological perspectives on mountain repopulation and spaces of cultural creativity in the Alpine area
After a century of unbroken demographic decline there are signs in many sectors of the Alpine crescent of a trend reversal which looks especially surprising in those areas (notably the French and Italian Alps) that had been affected by severe depopulation since the second half of the 19th century. In a stimulating analysis of socio-demographic changes in a French Alpine district, Cognard (2006) surmises that depopulation, however disastrous in ma…
Les « nouvelles formes de famille » en Italie: Entre convergences morphologiques et persistances culturelles
En Italie, depuis le milieu du xx e siècle, la famille a connu dans un premier temps un processus de « nucléarisation », suivi de multiples métamorphoses liées au déclin progressif du mariage. D'aucuns interprètent ces tendances comme la preuve d'une convergence vers des valeurs Nord-Européennes ; pour d'autres chercheurs, des différences culturelles persistent, dont témoigne la force bien plus contraignante des liens de parenté. L'article offre …
The Peasant Family in Northern Italy, 1750-1930: A Reassessment
Northernmost Italy is a land of great ecological variability, providing a natural laboratory for examining the impact of environmental factors on demography and society. A sharp contrast between mountains and plains was reflected in sharp differences in land tenure and social structure. Differences in access to marriage and in household composition between upland and lowland communities are examined and the impact on family life of economic chang…
Families and the Elderly along the Shores of the Mediterranean: Old and New Forms of Relatedness
Le vieillissement de la population impose des défis de plus en plus semblables aux sociétés situées d'un côté et de l'autre de la Méditerranée, car la famille y est encore un acteur majeur de la protection sociale. Les données sociodémographiques et ethnographiques examinées dans cet article montrent que les anciennes manières de se soutenir, comme la pratique de la co-résidence dans les familles élargies, jouent toujours un rôle important. Cepen…
Crossing the boundary: Peasants, shepherds, and servants in a western Alpine community
In the historical and anthropological literature, western Alps servants were widely assumed to be few in number, and the importance of the institution of service therefore negligible. This study combines historical-demographic and ethnographic methods to investigate whether this was true of a community in the Italian western Alps with a mixed population of peasants and transhumant shepherds. Surprisingly, a valuable 1951 census reveals that seemi…
L'alpeggio e il mercato. Qualche osservazione introduttiva
Child care, infant mortality and the impact of legislation: The case of Florence's foundling hospital, 1840–1940
Un examen attentif du fonctionnement des hôpitaux pour enfants trouvés offre une des meilleurs méthodes d'évaluation de la qualité des soins donnés aux enfants dans le passé et de l'impact des mesures prises, en matière médicale, administrative ou juridique, dans l'intention d'améliorer les chances de survie des nourrissons et des jeunes enfants. Dans cet article est presentee l'évolution de la mortalité infantile à Florence, dans le cadre de l'h…
Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet: Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870-1978
Upland Communities: Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century
This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists. The book therefore deals at length with such problems as the causes and consequences of emigration and patterns of marriage and inheritance in favouring or hampering the adjustments of local po…
Bevölkerungsgeschichte der Schweiz. Part 1: Die frühe Neuzeit 1500-1700
Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet: Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870-1978
Family Demography: Methods and Their Applications
The Peasant Family in Northern Italy, 1750–1930: A Reassessment
Northernmost Italy is a land of great ecological variability, providing a natural laboratory for examining the impact of environmental factors on demography and society. A sharp contrast between mountains and plains was reflected in sharp differences in land tenure and social structure. Differences in access to marriage and in household composition between upland and lowland communities are examined and the impact on family life of economic chang…
The Peasant Family in Northern Italy, 1750-1930: A Reassessment
Northernmost Italy is a land of great ecological variability, providing a natural laboratory for examining the impact of environmental factors on demography and society. A sharp contrast between mountains and plains was reflected in sharp differences in land tenure and social structure. Differences in access to marriage and in household composition between upland and lowland communities are examined and the impact on family life of economic chang…
Upland Communities: Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps Since the Sixteenth Century
Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research
Cultural Disenchantments: Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italy
Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied. His book portrays the dissonant crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. Examining the region of Friuli in northeast Italy, it shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditi…
Les modèles alpins de mortalité infantile
The evidence presented in this article shows that from the mid-18th century up to the early 20th century babies and young children tended to have a more favourable mortality experience in the upland regions of the Alpine crescent than in the adjacent hilly and flat areas. Although several explanations have been advanced, most scholars are inclined to believe that the lower levels of infant mortality displayed by the Alpine area were primarily acc…
Child care, infant mortality and the impact of legislation: The case of Florence's foundling hospital, 1840–1940
Un examen attentif du fonctionnement des hôpitaux pour enfants trouvés offre une des meilleurs méthodes d'évaluation de la qualité des soins donnés aux enfants dans le passé et de l'impact des mesures prises, en matière médicale, administrative ou juridique, dans l'intention d'améliorer les chances de survie des nourrissons et des jeunes enfants. Dans cet article est presentee l'évolution de la mortalité infantile à Florence, dans le cadre de l'h…
Sacrificed for Honor. Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control
The Peasantry of Europe
Introduzione all'antropologia storica
Storia delle Alpi e antropologia. Osservazioni in margine a un nuovo libro di Jon Mathieu
L'alpeggio e il mercato. Qualche osservazione introduttiva
Anthropology, Family History, and the Concept of Strategy
In this essay, we consider family history as a common field of substantive and theoretical interest shaped by contacts among several disciplines. These disciplines obviously include social history and population studies, but also - and rather prominently - social anthropology. One major component of the growth of family history has been the increasing amount of attention that historians pay to topics such as marriage, kinship, and the family, whi…
What's so special about the Mediterranean? Thirty years of research on household and family in Italy
This article discusses the 'Mediterranean model' of household formation proposed by Laslett and others in the early 1980s and argues that the notion of a Mediterranean culture area has been used in significantly different ways by family historians and social anthropologists. Drawing its materials mainly from research conducted on Italy, it examines the changing relationships through time between nuptiality and household composition, the extent an…
Politiche della morte e concezioni della vita in Palestina: Rassegna di studi
Crossing the boundary: Peasants, shepherds, and servants in a western Alpine community
In the historical and anthropological literature, western Alps servants were widely assumed to be few in number, and the importance of the institution of service therefore negligible. This study combines historical-demographic and ethnographic methods to investigate whether this was true of a community in the Italian western Alps with a mixed population of peasants and transhumant shepherds. Surprisingly, a valuable 1951 census reveals that seemi…
Family, kinship and welfare provision in Europe, past and present: Commonalities and divergences
The realization that European family forms are failing to converge as predicted by modernization theory has led many scholars to suspect that the broad regional differences detected by historians persist in the present and are likely to influence future developments. This article outlines some relevant hypotheses prompted by historical studies about the role of family and kinship as sources of social security and analyses the results of comparati…
Borders et frontières: Définitions théoriques et expérience subjective d’un concept à géométrie variable
perception de la frontière franco-italienne chez les Italiens de Grenoble
The Role of the Family in Mountain Pastoralism—Change and Continuity: Ethnographic Evidence from the Western Italian Alps
The distinctive features of mountain pastoral families in the past, and their adaptations to environmental and economic constraints, have been the subject of many comparative studies. Less effort has been invested in exploring the role of the family in today's pastoral economy and identifying structural and cultural continuities within the dramatic changes of the last decades. Our ethnographic fieldwork in several valleys of the Italian Western A…
Approfittare del vuoto”: Prospettive antropologiche su neo-popolamento e spazi di creatività culturale in area alpina
Dopo un secolo di ininterrotto declino demografico in molti settori dell’arco alpino si sta manifestando un’inversione di tendenza che appare sorprendente soprattutto nelle Alpi francesi e italiane, dove lo spopolamento era stato particolarmente severo sin dalla seconda metà del XIX secolo. In una stimolante analisi dei mutamenti socio-demografici in un distretto delle Alpi francesi, Cognard (2006) ha suggerito che questo processo di spopolamento…
Taking advantage of emptiness”: Anthropological perspectives on mountain repopulation and spaces of cultural creativity in the Alpine area
After a century of unbroken demographic decline there are signs in many sectors of the Alpine crescent of a trend reversal which looks especially surprising in those areas (notably the French and Italian Alps) that had been affected by severe depopulation since the second half of the 19th century. In a stimulating analysis of socio-demographic changes in a French Alpine district, Cognard (2006) surmises that depopulation, however disastrous in ma…
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