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SEASONALITY OF MARRIAGES IN SPANISH AND FRENCH PARISHES IN THE CERDANYA VALLEY, EASTERN PYRENEES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2001

MONTSERRAT SALVAT ,
MARTA VIGO ,
HELEN MACBETH  and
JAUME BERTRANPETIT
MONTSERRAT SALVAT
Affiliation:
Laboratori d'Antropologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
MARTA VIGO
Affiliation:
Laboratori d'Antropologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
HELEN MACBETH
Affiliation:
Anthropology Unit, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0B
JAUME BERTRANPETIT
Affiliation:
Laboratori d'Antropologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract

The Cerdanya valley in the eastern Pyrenees has a physical unity into which a political frontier has been imposed to divide it. The social and cultural repercussions of this Franco-Spanish border have created obstacles to marriage which are not due to topography. Choice of month of marriage is under cultural control and the study of seasonality in marriages recorded in the registers of all the Cerdan parishes on both sides of the border demonstrated differences over time and between French and Spanish sectors. It is suggested that these changes demonstrate the process of distancing of the two populations. Cluster and correspondence analysis showed progressive differentiation of the seasonality patterns of the French and Spanish Cerdans despite the geographic unity of the valley. Sociocultural factors are presumed responsible.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 51 - 62
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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