The History of the Family

The History of the Family
ISBN-10
0631146695
ISBN-13
9780631146698
Category
History
Pages
220
Language
English
Published
1991-01-08
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Author
James Casey

Description

The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations. The author examines the contemporary use of these terms and their evolution from nineteenth-century anthropology and social thought. He then considers how these concepts apply to and reveal the nature of European and other societies.

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