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Author Simpson, Bob, 1956-

Title Changing families : an ethnographic approach to divorce and separation / Bob Simpson
Published Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1998

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 W'PONDS  306.89 Sim/Cfa  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Preface: Divorcing in the Late 1980s -- 1. Divorce: Towards an Anthropology of Endings -- 2. Plotting the Contours of the 'Unclear' Family -- 3. Disputing Persons: Constructions of Childhood after Divorce -- 4. The Fractured Triangle: Disputes after Divorce -- 5. On Gifts, Payments and Kinship after Divorce -- 6. Dialogues of the Divorced -- 7. Divorce, Kinship and the History of the Western Family
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-178) and index
Subject Broken homes -- Great Britain.
Divorce -- Great Britain.
Divorced people -- Family relationships -- Great Britain.
Families -- Great Britain.
Separation (Law) -- Great Britain.
LC no. 98211636
ISBN 1859739148 (cloth)
1859739199 (paperback)