Book
The Madonna of 115th Street: faith and community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950
Yale University Press • New Haven, Connecticut • Published In 1985 • Pages:
By: Orsi, Robert A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the popular religion of Italian Americans living in Italian Harlem in New York City from 1880 through 1950. Much of the work is devoted to an analysis of the FESTA of the Madonna of Mount Carmel on East 115th Street, and on the devotion of the people -- Italian immigrants and their American-born children -- to this Madonna. This source also deals extensively with the socio-cultural aspects of the community in which the FESTA takes place, and on the significant role of the DOMUS in the lives of Italian American population. (The DOMUS, as used here, represents not only the family or household itself, but also the moral judgement of this unit in determining proper ethical behavior for its members.) This monograph also presents information on the role of women in the society with particular emphasis on the position of the mother in the family and on the history of immigration to Italian Harlem.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Gender status
- Ethics
- Household
- Family relationships
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- East Harlem, New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Robert Anthony Orsi
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. 235-282
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85010799
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans