Variation and Change in Land Use and Settlement Patterns in South Italy

Ascoli Satriano 1700–1990. The Making of a Southern Agro‐town

Bibliographic Data

ID7796840
AuthorsNevill Colclough (University of Kent, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume21
Issue1
Pages1-17
Publication date2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757201003617235
OpenAlexW2027780356
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

Based on both archival and contemporary fieldwork materials, this paper explores, over a 300‐year time span, changing perceptions of urban space and town–country relationships in the small north Puglian city of Ascoli Satriano. In particular, it examines the implications of the growth of an agro‐town economy in the late nineteenth century, and the short‐lived peasantization of a substantial part of Ascoli's rapidly expanding population. It argues that early anthropological attempts to delineate the main cultural and structural characteristics of southern Italian settlement patterns were premature, over‐generalized and failed to account for variation through time, and that the conceptual peasantization of the Italian south is, in part at least, the product of a historically foreshortened anthropological tradition that has habitually over‐privileged the longue durée

Archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Population · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Demography · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical and Environmental Studies · History