[2 Vol.] A History of the Family. Vol. I: Distant Worlds, Ancient Worlds, Vol. II: The Impact of Modernity.

Burguière, André, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber Martine Segalen (eds.) a. o.:

ISBN 10: 0674396758 / ISBN 13: 9780674396753

Published by Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996

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Vol. I: X, 713 p.: Ill., Vol. II: VI, 585 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Vol. I: Schutzumschlag berieben, Buchschnitt weist kleine Verschmutzungen auf, sonst sehr guter Zustand, Vol. II: Schutzumschlag berieben und bestoßen, sonst sehr guter Zustand / Vol. I: dust jacket rubbed, book edges show minor soiling, otherwise very good condition, Vol. II: dust jacket rubbed and scuffed, otherwise very good condition. - CONTENTS: Vol. I: Preface Introduction Claude Levi-Strauss An Anthropological Perspective on Kinship and the Family Frangoise Zonabend I Antiquity 1 Prehistory of the Family Claude Masset 2 From Sumer to Babylon: Families as Landowners and Families as Rulers Jean-Jacques Glassner 3 The Survival of the Family Name and the Pharaonic Order Annie Forgeau 4 The Desire for Transcendence: the Hebrew Family Model and Jewish Family Practices Frank Alvarez-Per eyre and Florence Heymann 5 The Family in Ancient Athens (Fifth-Fourth Century bc) Giulia Sissa 6 Fathers as Citizens of Rome, Rome as a City of Fathers (Second Century BC-Second Century ad) Tan Thomas 7 The Family under the Roman Empire: Signs and Gestures Aline Rousselle II Medieval Times Introduction Georges Duby 8 Barbarian Europe Pierre Guichard and Jean-Pierre Cuvillier 9 The Carolingian Moment (Eighth-Tenth Century) Pierre Toubert 10 The Feudal Era (Eleventh-Thirteenth Century) Robert Fossier 11 Europe: Town and Country (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Century) Henri Bresc 12 Families and Kinships in Byzantium Evelyne Patlagean III Distant Times 13 China: the Family as a Relay of Government Michel Cartier 14 Japan: a Household Society Patrick Beillevaire 15 The World Order and the Family Institution in India Roland Lardinois 16 The Family in Arab Islam Thierry Bianquis Glossary Bibliography Index, Vol. 2: Acknowledgements Introduction Jack Goody I Europe and the First Modernity 1 The One Hundred and One Families of Europe Andre Burguiere and Francois Lebrun 2 Priest, Prince and Family Andre Burguiere and Francois Lebrun II Other Worlds 3 Children of the Apocalypse: the Family in Meso-America and the Andes Carmen Bernand and Serge Gruzinski 4 The Long March of the Chinese Family Michel Cartier 5 The Family: Instrument and Model of the Japanese Nation Patrick Beillevaire 6 India: the Family, the State and Women Roland Lardinois 7 Africa: the Family at the Crossroads ]ean-Pierre Dozon 8 The Arab World: the Family as Fortress Philippe Fargues III The Western World: Industrialization and Urbanization 9 The Industrial Revolution: from Proletariat to Bourgeoisie Martine Segalen 10 Love and Liberty: the Contemporary American Family Herve Varenne 11 Socialist Families Basile Kerblay 12 The Scandinavian Model David Gaunt and Louise Nystrom 13 Families in France Martine Segalen and Fran^oise Zonabend 14 The Family: What Next? Andre Burguiere, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Martine Segalen and Frangoise Zonabend Glossary Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780674396753 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1125.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [2 Vol.] A History of the Family. Vol. I: Distant Worlds, Ancient Worlds, Vol. II: The Impact of Modernity.
• Publisher: Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674396758
• ISBN 13: 9780674396753
• Binding: Cloth with dustjacket.
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1125 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

As old as the prehistoric bones jumbled in caves, as new as the latest union consummated in a test tube, the family in one form or another is at the heart of every society. Our most common institution, it is also the source of some of the world's most compelling and persistent questions, touching the very quick of history, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. A History of the Family is the first work to address all these aspects of the family over time and across the earth--to search out what the family means in its most particular and universal senses.

This monumental work in two volumes brings together experts from every discipline to show what the study of each epoch has to tell us about the family. Why is the family universal and yet so different in its various cultural manifestations? What notions of kinship regulate it, and how do these develop and change?

Françoise Zonabend's anthropological perspective on these questions, leading off Volume I, surveys familial terms and arrangements from familiar patrilinear models to matrilinear societies in Sumatra and Ghana to polyandry among the Nayar and the Toda of India. The following essays, which move from prehistory to antiquity to the middle ages, trace the evolution of the family from primate behavior to codified practices--in Sumer and Babylon and ancient Rome, in feudal Europe and medieval Byzantium, in China and Japan and Arab Islam--and relate these developments to religious, economic, and governmental concerns from land ownership to dynastic control and the maintenance of public order.

About the Authors

André Burguière is Directeur d'Etudes at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber is the former Director of Studies and Associated Member at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Martine Segalen is Directeur de Recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Françoise Zonabend is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.