Comparative History of Nuptial Customs in Italy and among the Other Indo-
Angelo de GubernatisProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 3.1- Word count
- 433K words
- Chapters
- 44
Tags
Foreign Language Books Culture AnthropologyMarriage CustomsComparative StudyIndian FolkloreItalian FolkloreFolklore StudiesFolk CustomsCross-Cultural ViewSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Storia comparata degli usi nuziali in Italia e presso gli altri popoli indo-Author: De Gubernatis, Angelo, 1840-1913,Language: Italian, Class: HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender, Release Date: Jun 13, 2012Editor's review
This is a folkloristic work that studies marriage customs in Italy and among Indo-European peoples using the comparative method; its author, Angelo De Gubernatis, was a nineteenth-century Italian scholar. The book centers on wedding customs across Italian regions while also touching on similar or divergent customs among Indo-European peoples, exemplifying the early comparative folkloristics approach. For today's readers, its value lies not in offering the latest conclusions but in presenting a period's way of organizing materials and its problem consciousness: how to seek cultural connections in fragments such as wedding rituals, bridewealth, and kinship terms. Reading it yields a wealth of concrete folklore items while also revealing the comparative vision and limitations of nineteenth-century humanities. It is suitable for researchers in folklore, the history of anthropology, and Italian culture as a source text and a document in scholarly history, and also suitable for readers interested in European wedding traditions to browse. Because the original is in Italian and the book was written early, its views and formulations need to be examined against their scholarly-historical background and should not be cited directly as contemporary folkloristic conclusions.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Folklore and anthropology researchers who need primary material from nineteenth-century comparative folkloristics
- Enthusiasts of Italian culture who want to learn about specific records of traditional wedding customs
- Readers interested in scholarly history, focusing on the application of early comparative methods in humanities research
- Advanced readers who know Italian and are interested in European folklore
Not a good fit for
- General readers who do not know Italian and have no translation available
- Readers seeking the latest conclusions of contemporary wedding-custom research
- Casual readers looking for light, story-driven books
Reading tips
- Begin with the table of contents and introductory passages to grasp how the author delimits the scope of comparison
- Excerpt wedding-custom entries by region or ethnic group and build your own comparative table
- Note nineteenth-century scholarly presuppositions while reading and compare them with modern folkloristic conclusions
- Use Chinese overview materials on Italian folklore or Indo-European comparative studies as supplementary aids
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
FAQ
In what language is this book written, and is it hard to read?
The original is in Italian and was written in the nineteenth century, so its syntax and diction bear period features. It is fairly suitable for readers with intermediate-to-advanced Italian reading ability; those who know only Chinese will need research overviews or selected translations, as reading it straight through is quite difficult.Can the book's conclusions still be cited directly today?
They should not be cited directly as settled conclusions. It is an early work of comparative folkloristics, and its value as material and as scholarly history outweighs its value as conclusions. Specific folklore records may be cited as historical sources, but theoretical inferences need to be compared with modern research and their period limitations noted.Is it suitable as an introductory folklore reader?
Not very suitable for beginners with no background. The material is dense and lacks a modern theoretical framework, so beginners can easily get lost in the entries. A better use is to acquire basic folkloristic concepts first and then read it as a compilation of scholarly history and materials.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Angelo de Gubernatis Author · Italian · 1840–1913Angelo de Gubernatis (1840–1913) was an Italian writer, philologist and Orientalist, born in Turin and died in Rome. He taught Sanskrit at the universities of Florence and Rome and founded periodicals such as the Rivista Orientale, becoming one of the leading figures of nineteenth-century Italian Orientalism. His representative work, Zoological Mythology (1872), examines animal legends and mythological motifs in two volumes, while his other writings include a comparative history of marriage customs among the Italians and other Indo-European peoples and a biographical study of Alessandro Manzoni. His scholarship is distinguished by cross-linguistic comparison and attention to the links between folk belief and literary tradition. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times.