SUCCULENCE AS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEM: THE LETTERS OF THE APOSTOLIC PENITENTIARY ON THE MARITAL DISPENSATION FROM THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES AS AN INDUCEMENT FOR RE-EXAMINING THE LIMITATIONS OF DISCOURSE ON MIGRATION
Keywords:
succulence, Italy, 17th and 18th centuries, discourse, marital dispensation, marital migrationsAbstract
In Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries, marital dispensation was a common phenomenon. A special group of these dispensations consists of those related to marriages between close relatives. The potential of this institution of the Catholic Church, in terms of contributing to the understanding of human mobility, has been largely ignored, although the effects it produces may be most evident in the discourse on spatial mobility. More precisely, this institution or practice can be approached as a form of discouraging marital migrations, or as a form of stimulating spatial stateness. For the purpose of this essay, an attempt was made, through a discursive analysis of the letters of the Apostolic Penitentiary to the bishops throughout Italy from that period, to determine which discursive practices the authorities used to justify this phenomenon. A link between marital dispensation and anti-emigration tendencies has already been indirectly indicated by numerous studies in biophysical anthropology, but has not been the subject of research of sociocultural anthropologists, which could give this problem a deeper cultural dimension.
References
Alfani, Guido. 2010. Wealth Inequalities and Population Dynamics in Early Modern Northern Italy. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 40 (4): 513–549.
Bertucci, Paola. 2013. The In/visible Woman: Mariangela Ardinghelli and the Circulation of Knowledge between Paris and Naples in the Eighteenth Century. Isis 104 (2): 226–249.
Birta, I. i S. Nedeljković. 2018. Bračna dispenzacija u XVII i XVIII veku. Antropologija 18 (3): 123–143.
Birta, I. i S. Nedeljković. 2019. Papski nalozi za istragu u vezi sa bračnom dispenzacijom kao istorijskoantropološki izvori. Etnoantropološki problemi (u štampi).
Blanco Villegas, Maria Jose & Boattini, Alessio & Rodriguez Otero, Humildad & Pettener, Davide. 2004. Inbreeding Patterns in La Cabrera, Spain: Dispensations, Multiple Consanguinity Analysis, and Isonymy. Human Biology, 76 (2): 191–210.
Bobić, Mirjana, Milica Vesković Anđelković, Vlasta Kokotović Kanazir. 2015. Studija o spoljnim i unutrašnjim migracijama građana Srbije sa posebnim osvrtom na mlade. International organization for migration – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC.
Buylaert, Frederik. 2012. The Late Medieval „Crisis of the Nobility” Reconsidered: The Case of Flanders. Journal of Social History, 45 (4): 1117–1134.
Cavalli Sforza, Luigi Luca, Antonio Moroni and Gianna Zei 2004. Consaguinity, Inbreeding and Genetic Drift in Italy. Monographs in Population Biology 39, Princeton University Press
Chalfin, Brenda 2008. Sovereigns and citizens in close encounter: Airport anthropology and customs regimes in neoliberal Ghana. American Ethnologist 35: 519–538.
Cvijić, J. 1987. Antropogeografski spisi. Beograd. SANU – NIRO „Književne novine” –Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva.
Do, Quy Toan and Iyer, Sriya and Joshi, Shareen. 2006. The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4085. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=950455
Drakić Grgur, M. 2016. Efikasnost anti-imigracione politike. U: Seobe i razvoj, dr Veselin Vukotić et al. ur. 69–76. Centar za ekonomska istraživanja Instituta društvenih nauka.
Dubowy, Norbert. 2016. „Musical Travels. Sources of Musicians’ Tours and Migrations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century”. In: Musicians’ Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early Modern Europe: Biographical Patterns and Cultural Exchanges. Gesa zur Nieden, Berthold Over (eds.), 207–226. Transcript Verlag.
Đurđev, B. 1995. Posleratno naseljavanje Vojvodine: metodi i rezultati demogeografske analize naseljavanja Vojvodine u periodu 1945 – 1981. Novi Sad. Matica Srpska.
Fitzgerald, D. 2009. „Following the Flock: The Mexican Catholic Church Confronts Emigration”. In: Nuevas tendencias y nuevos desafíos de la migración internacional: Memorias del Seminario Permanente sobre Migración Internacional. Vol. 3. Manuel Ángel Castillo García, Rodolfo Cruz Piñeiro, Jorge Santibáñez Romellón (eds.), 423–464. Colegio de Mexico.
Fuster, Vicente & Colantonio, Sonia. 2004. Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Geographic Variables Affecting the Diverse Degrees of Consanguineous Marriages in Spain. Human Biology, 76 (1): 1–14.
Gini, C. and E. Caranti (1954). Marriage and Family Living. International Issue on the Family Vol. 16, No. 4., National Council on Family Relations: 350–361.
Glick Schiller, N. and Noel B. Salazar. 2013. Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39 (2): 183–200.
Gueresi, Paola, Davide Pettener, Fosca Martuzzi Veronesi. 2001). Marriage behaviour in the Alpine Non Valley from 1825 to 1923, Annals of Human Biology 28 (2): 157–171.
Hills, H. 1994. Iconography and Ideology: Aristocracy, Immaculacy and Virginity in Seventeenth-Century Palermo. Oxford Art Journal, 17 (2): 16–31.
Powell, Hunter, Jenny DiPlacidi. 2018. Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression. Manchester University Press.
Kirby Peter Wynn 2009. „‘Lost in Space’: Anthropological Approach to Movement”. In: Boundless World. An Anthropological Approach to Movement, Peter Wynn Kirby (ed.), 1–27. New York – Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Congost, Rosa, Josep Portell, Enric Sauger, Albert Serramontmany. 2012. Dispensation from Banns. A Data Source for Historical Demography and Social History, Population-E 67 (3): 465–478.
Marino, John A. 1982. Economic Idylls and Pastoral Realities: The „Trickster Economy” in the Kingdom of Naples. Comparative Studies in Society and History 24 (2): 211–234.
McDonald, J. S. 1958. Some Socio-Economic Emigration Differentials in Rural Italy, 1902–1913 Economic Development and Cultural Change, 7 (1): 55–72.
McDonald, J. S. 1963. Agricultural Organization, Migration and Labour Militancy in Rural Italy. The Economic History Review, New Series, 16 (1): 61–75.
Mesić, M. 1992. Ekološke migracije, Socijalna Ekologija 1 (2): 167–177.
Nedeljković, S. 2018. Privatni etnički arhiv između politike identiteta i sredstva društvene kontrole: primer arhiva „B” u Rumuniji. Antropologija 18 (2): 83–102.
Ranke, L. 1901. History of popes: their church and state. New York. Colonial Press.
Salazar Noel B. and Alan Smart. 2011. „Anthropological Takes on (Im)mobility”. In: Identities: global Studies in Culture and Power, 18 (6): i-ix.
Salonen, K. and L.Schmugge. 2009. A Sip from the „Well of Grace”: Medieval Texts from the Apostolic Penitentiary, The Catholic University of America Press.
Siddle D. J. 1997. Migration as a Strategy of Accumulation: Social and Economic Change in Eighteenth Century Savoy, The Economic History Review, New Series, 50 (1): 1–20.
Stark, Oded. 1988. On Marriage and Migration, European Journal of Population 1988 (4): 23–37.
Zängle, M. 2014. Trends in Papal Communication: A Content Analysis of Encyclicals, from Leo XIII to Pope Francis, Historical Social Research 39 (4): 329–364.
Zelinsky, Wilbur. 1971. The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition. Geographical Review, 61 (2): 219–249.
ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities
CEEOL - Central and Eastern European Online Library
The DOI Foundation