book chapter
Vengo per fare l'America: the sojourner businessman
New explorations in Italian American studies: proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Washington, D.C., November 12-14, 1992 • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1992 • Pages: 91-99
By: La Sorte, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a paper on immigrant grocery businesses and Italian American involvement in it. LaSorte makes several general statements and then illustrates them with the life histories of two Italian-American grocers in Utica, New York, one successful and one not.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- External migration
- Retail marketing
- Retail businesses
- Sales promotion
- Individual enterprise
- Competition
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1911
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Utica, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [Michael La Sorte]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-99)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94032166
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans