Description |
xi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
pt. 1. Family and the economy of emotion Interest and emotion in family and kinship studies: a critique of social history and anthropology / Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean -- Putting kin and kinship to good use: the circulation of goods, labour, and names on Karpathos (Greece) / Bernard Vernier -- pt. 2. Materna in extremis: the clash of interests between mother and child Infanticide in rural Bavaria in the nineteenth century / Regina Schulte -- Possession and dispossession: maternity and morality in Morocco / Vanessa Maher -- pt. 3. Property in the mediation of family relations 'Avoir sa part': sibling relations in partible inheritance Brittany / Martine Segalen -- Tensions, dissensions, and ruptures inside the family in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Haute Provence / Alain Collomp -- Young bees in an empty hive: relations between brothers-in-law in a south German village around 1800 / David Warren Sabean -- pt. 4. Obligation and power: kinship in the transformation of politics 'A brother is a creative thing': change and conflict in a Melpa family (Papua New Guinea) / Andrew Strathern -- The Aragonese royal family around 1300 / Roger Sablonier -- pt. 5. Passageways: family values and survival strategies Afro-American kinship before and after emancipation in North America / Herbert G. Gutman -- Parental strategies: calculation or sentiment?: fostering practices among West Africans / Esther Goody -- pt. 6. Family values and class practice Kinship and class consciousness: family values and work experience among hospital workers in an American southern town / Karen Sacks -- Linen was their life: family survival strategies and parent child relations in nineteenth-century France / Louise A. Tilly -- pt. 7. The idioms of family in work, domination, and custom Village spinning bees: sexual culture and free time among rural youth in early modern Germany / Hans Medick -- Family fun in Starve Harbour: custom, history, and confrontation in village Newfoundland / Gerald M. Sider -- Mothers, sons, and the sale of symbols and goods: the 'German Mother's Day' 1923-1933 / Karen Hausen |
Analysis |
Families |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Families -- Psychological aspects.
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Families.
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Kinship.
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Family.
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Author |
Medick, Hans.
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Sabean, David Warren.
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LC no. |
83014371 |
ISBN |
0521249694 |
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