Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dk4vv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T13:38:19.480Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

ISONYMY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE PROVENÇAL-ITALIAN ETHNIC MINORITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2004

G. BIONDI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze ambientali, Università di L’Aquila
A. VIENNA
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Università di Roma La Sapienza
J. A. PEÑA GARCIA
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Animal y Genetica, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao
C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Abstract

Surnames were obtained for the second half of the 20th century from civil and religious marriage registers on fifteen Provençal-Italian and five Italian villages of Cuneo Province, Italy. To insert in the analysis an outward comparison, surnames from two Italian villages of Turin Province, one parish of Turin, one village of Alessandria Province and one village of Asti Province were also collected. Ethnicity does not seem to be the main factor affecting the present genetic structure of the Provençal-Italians. They are an open community, and evidence the end of the genetic isolation of the alpine populations.

Type
Regular Articles
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)