Interest and emotion : essays on the study of family and kinship / edited by Hans Medick, David Warren Sabean.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medick, Hans.

Sabean, David Warren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families.

Kinship.

Families--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1984.

Contents:

Part I Family and the Economy of Emotion

1 Interest and emotion in family and kinship studies: a critique of social history and anthropology / Hans Medick Medick, Hans, David Warren Sabean Sabean, David Warren

2 Putting kin and kinship to good use: the circulation of goods, labour, and names on Karpathos (Greece) / Bernard Vernier Vernier, Bernard

Part II Materna in Extremis: the Clash of Interests between Mother and Child

3 Infanticide in rural Barvaria in the nineteenth century / Regina Schulte Schulte, Regina

4 Possession and dispossession: maternity and mortality in Morocco / Vanessa Maher Maher, Vanessa

Part III Property in the Mediation of Family Relations

5 'Avoir sa part': sibling relations in partible inheritance Brittany / Martine Segalen Segalen, Martine

6 Tensions, dissensions, and ruptures inside the family in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Haute Provence / Alain Collomp Collomp, Alain

7 Young bees in an empty hive: relations between brother-in-law in a South German village around 1800 / David Warren Sabean Sabean, David Warren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521249694

OCLC:

9761893