Surnames in south-eastern France: structure of the rural population during the 19th century through isonymy

Autor: Célia Kamel, Bérengère Saliba-Serre, Marie-Hélène Lizee, Michel Signoli, Caroline Costedoat
Přispěvatelé: Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé (ADES), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-EFS ALPES MEDITERRANEE-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Risques, Ecosystèmes, Vulnérabilité, Environnement, Résilience (RECOVER), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Sud-Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur regionFrench Blood Establishment (EFS Sud-Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur -Corse)
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Biosocial Science
Journal of Biosocial Science, Cambridge University Press (CUP), In press, ⟨10.1017/S0021932021000699⟩
Journal of Biosocial Science, In press, ⟨10.1017/S0021932021000699⟩
ISSN: 1469-7599
0021-9320
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932021000699⟩
Popis: An analysis of the distribution of surnames through time and space allows us to understand the structure of human groups, their exchanges or even their possible isolation. The French population has already been studied through surnames and it has been shown that the Sud-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region differed from the rest of France in both the 20th and 21st centuries (Mourrieras et al., 1995; Scapoli et al., 2005). The objective of this study was to understand the population evolution and particularities of the Sud-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region through an analysis of the distribution of surnames over an earlier period: the 19th century. For this work, 806,069 birth records from 521 communes between 1810 and 1890 were recorded and a total of 23,340 surnames were collected. The estimation of various isonymic parameters has allowed a description of this corpus never exploited before. In order to appreciate the population evolution, the data set was divided into three periods of 25 years. The canton was the geographical unit of this study, and similarities and differences between each of them were evaluated using Lasker distances, which allow the construction of dendrograms. A positive and significant correlation (pv-index of Karlin and McGregor (1967), showed higher values in the south-western quarter of the region. The decrease in Rst values across the three periods is consistent with a homogenization of the patronymic between the cantons. This three-period approach showed a population evolution influenced by linguistic, cultural, historical and migratory phenomena since the Middle Ages, disrupted by the socioeconomic changes of the 19th century.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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