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Kinship, community, and self : essays in honor of David Warren Sabean / edited by Jason Coy [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ; Volume 9.
- Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; Volume 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kinship--Europe--History.
- Kinship.
- Kinship--History.
- Families--Europe--History.
- Families.
- Families--History.
- Community life--Europe--History.
- Community life.
- Europe--Social life and customs.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, England : berghahn, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history through his supervision of dozens of graduate students and his influence on countless other scholars. This book collects wide-ranging essays demonstrating the impact of Sabean's work has on scholars of diverse time periods and regions, all revolving around the prominent issues that have framed his career: kinship, community, and self. The significance of David Warren Sabean's scholarship is reflec
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction. Sabean's Swabians; Chapter 1. ""As a Brother Should Be""; Chapter 2. Legal Pitfalls of Marriage Brokerage; Chapter 3. ""Married to the Bottle""; Chapter 4. A Home for Mothers in Vienna; Chapter 5. Of Queens and Kinship; Chapter 6. Making of a Japanese Rural Christian Community; Chapter 7. Divination and Community; Chapter 8. Paracelsus; Chapter 9. From Heretics to Hypocrites; Chapter 10. Finding Orthodoxy in the Baltic; Chapter 11. Women, Railways, and Respectability; Chapter 12. Adventures in Terrorism; Chapter 13. Power in Truth Telling
- Chapter 14. For the Love of GeometryChapter 15. A Private Repulsion toward Public Women; Chapter 16. Honor and the Policing of Intra-Jewish Disputes; Chapter 17. You Are What You Reform?; Conclusion; David Warren Sabean's Published Works; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782384205
- 1782384200
- OCLC:
- 1125069431
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