Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York : Cambridge University Press Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 1984.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 sa
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