Variation and Change in Land Use and Settlement Patterns in South Italy: Ascoli Satriano 1700-1990. The Making of a Southern Agro‐town

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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.View full textDownload full textKeywordsSouth Italy, Town and Country, Civic Ritual, Latifondia, PeasantizationRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757201003617235