The Italian-American Funeral
Persistence through Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4326259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Mathias (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-373X • E-ISSN: 2325-811X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1498250 |
| OpenAlex | W2431640725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Philadelphia Italian-American community is the persistence of a South Italian village funeral pattern.' The village system of behavior surrounding death and burial has endured through the Italians' emigration from the agriculturally centered settlements of Italy to the urban community of Philadelphia, while the forms have persisted for more than one hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The most striking characteristic of the persisting funeral pattern, however, is that the pattern is borrowed. It is not the peasants' traditional village pattern which the immigrants chose to follow; instead, the persisting pattern is modeled after the system of the Signori, the landowners for whom the peasants work.2
Geography · Persistence (discontinuity · Geology · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2025 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |