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Agrarian Reform Officials
agrarian social structure
anthropological kinship systems
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Conferring
Demesne Land
Don Pietro
economic activities
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European system
Family Friends
Follow
Girl's Mother's Sister
Girl’s Mother’s Sister
Half Hectares
Held
Inclined
inheritance patterns
kinship and land tenure in Italian villages
Kinsman
Large Families
legal rights
legal versus informal land transfer
Life Interest
Married Man
modernisation impact rural communities
Neighbourhood Hierarchy
Nuclear Family Households
Orchards
Pietro
Pisticci
public land
rural southern Italy
Sister's Daughter
Sister’s Daughter
Synoptic Chart
Under Cover
Wandered
Wife's Land
Wife’s Land
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781845200398
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1973
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The study of family and inheritance systems is a traditionally anthropological one. Dr Davis has examined a South Italian town with records from 1814 and concludes that the present 'typical' European system is of recent adoption, a response to the gradual and peculiar integration of Pisticci into a nation-state and national economy. The account of landholding distinguishes carefully between legal rights and informal cessions of land, and agriculture is put into the context of other economic activities. Dr Davis emphasises the structural importance of kin, family and neighbourhood relationships as bases for the creation of more ephemeral ties of friendship, clientage and network.
J. Davis is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent.
