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THE ETHNIC MINORITIES OF SOUTHERN ITALY AND SICILY: RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH SURNAMES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2001

A. VIENNA ,
J. A. PEÑA GARCIA ,
C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR  and
G. BIONDI
A. VIENNA
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia animale e dell’uomo, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
J. A. PEÑA GARCIA
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Animal y Genetica, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
G. BIONDI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia animale e dell’uomo, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Abstract

Surnames of grandparents were collected from children in the primary schools of the Albanian–Italian, Croat–Italian and Greek–Italian villages of southern Italy and Sicily. The coefficients of relationships by isonymy show almost no relationship with ethnicity. Ethnolinguistic minorities of southern Italy and Sicily are geographically subdivided into two main clusters: the first cluster comprises the Albanian, Croat and Greek communities of the Adriatic area; and the second cluster comprises the Albanian and Greek communities of the Ionian, Thirrenian and Sicilian areas.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 25 - 31
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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