Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History

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251 source Notes Preface: Family History 1. For the quotation and the development of these ideas, see John R. Gillis, A World of their Own Making (New York: Basic Books, 1996), 14, and xv-xvi. 2. Historian David Levine conceives the family not as a distinct result of the “’Christian marriage ideology,’ a ’homeostatic demographic system,’ or a ’feudal mode of production,’ but an interconnection of these elements within a quite distinctive ecological environment.” Levine, At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000 (Berkeley: University of California, 2000), esp. 268–69. Introduction: Putting on the coat of the Past 1. For a historiographical introduction to the sundry dimensions of family history, see Lawrence Stone, “Family History in the 1980s,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 12 (1981): 51–87; Tama Hareven, “The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change,” American Historical Review 96 (1991): 95–124; Katherine Lynch, “The Family and the History of Public Life,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 24 (1994): 665–84; Louise Tilly, “Women’s History and Family History: A Fruitful Collaboration or a Missed Connection?,” Journal of Family History 12 (1987): 303–15. Representative books include Peter Laslett’s classic, The World We Have Lost, 2d ed. (London: Methuen, 1971); Jean-Louis Flandrin, Families in Former Times: Kinship, Household and Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979); Jack Goody, The European Family: An Historico-Anthropolgical Essay (Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 2000); Martine Segalen, Historical Anthropology of the Family (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); Michael Mitterauer and Reinhard Sieder, The European Family: Patriarchy to Partnership from the Middle Ages to the Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997); and David Levine, At the Dawn of Humanity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). 2. Joseph Amato, Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), Valery quotation cited p. 3. 3. Cited in Greg Dening, The Death of William Gooch: A History’s Anthropology (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995), 13. 4. Cited in David Levine and Zubedeh Vahed, “Ginzburg’s Menoccio: Refutations and Conjectures ,” Histoire Sociale/Social History, 34 (2001); 437. Source Notes 252 chapter 1: Rosalia, a Misery as ancient as sicily 1. The name Amato is common in parts of Sicily and southern Italy, and thanks to emigration it can be found throughout Europe, Latin America, the United States, and elsewhere. It is also a name used by Spanish or Mediterranean Jews. 2. Walter Nugent, Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870–1914 (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1992), xii-xiii, 11–14. For Italian emigration, see also Gianfusto Rosoli, ed., Un Secolo di Emigrazione Italiana, 1876-1976 (Rome: Centro Studi Emigrazione, 1978). 3. Central for the formation of the European peasant is Levine, At the Dawn of Modernity, 43–44, 192–95, 208–9. A few works of interest on the peasantry are Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou : The Promised Land of Error (New York: Random House, 1979); Piero Camporesi, Il pane selvaggio (Bologna: Mulino, 1983); Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1980); and Arthur Imhof, Lost Worlds: How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life Is So Hard Today (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996). 4. Jules Michelet, “The Bondage of the Peasant,” The People (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1973), 30–31. 5. Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider, Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily (New York: Academic Press, 1976), ix-x. 6. For this quotation and two books on the transformation of the countryside and its people in late nineteenth-century western Sicily, see Donna Rae Gabaccia, Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988), 1–36 (quotation p. 7), and From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change among Italian Immigrants , 1880–1930 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984). For a worthy examination of economic conditions in western Sicily precipitating migration to the United States, see Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880–1930 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977). 7. Cousin John Notaro believes that our Amato family, whose origin is the southern Sicilian coast town of Licata, did not arrive in Cerda until the middle of the nineteenth century. Of course, the number of generations a family spends in a particular town can be an indicator of its well-being, as migration, which accelerated throughout rural Europe, Italy...