Infant Abandonment in Nineteenth-Century Italy

该奖项支持一位文化人类学家研究 世纪弃婴史 意大利。 当时欧洲建立了许多机构 来应对这种现象。 本项目将应用 历史人口统计学的方法来追踪这些人的命运 婴儿通过资源的组合：档案， 博洛尼亚的弃儿之家，十九世纪的文件和其他 描述弃儿之家制度的文献， 这是一个孤儿院所在的社区，最近 意大利的历史研究记录了这一现象。 变化 在遗弃的流行将进行分析，参考 意大利社会的变化。 这项研究很重要，因为遗弃婴儿会增加， 随着社会、政治和经济的变化而减弱 家庭的情况。 加深对历史的了解 这种现象将帮助我们了解如何避免它在 现在的时间

This award supports a cultural anthropologist studying the history of the abandonment of infants in nineteenth century Italy. At that time many institutions were established in Europe to deal with this phenomenon. This project will apply the methods of historical demography to trace the fate of these infants through a combination of resources: archives of a foundling home in Bologna, nineteenth-century documents and other literature describing the foundling home system, archives of the community that the foundling home was situated in, and recent Italian historical studies documenting this phenomenon. Changes in the prevalence of abandonment will be analyzed with reference to changes in Italian society. This research is important because infant abandonment waxes and wanes with changes in the social, political and economic situations of families. Increased understanding of the history of this phenomenon will help us understand how to avoid it in the present time.