Kinship in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kinship in Europe write by David Warren Sabean. This book was released on 2007. Kinship in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the publication of Philippe Ariès' book, 'Centuries of Childhood', there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. The essays in this text explore two major transitions in kinship patterns - at the end of the Middle Ages and at the end of the 18th century.
Kinship in Europe
Kinship in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kinship in Europe write by David Warren Sabean. This book was released on 2007-10-01. Kinship in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the publication of Philippe Ariès’s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the family to implicit notions of modernization, with the rise of the nuclear family in the West as part of its economic and political success. During the past decade, however, that synthesis has begun to break down. Historians have begun to examine kinship - the way individual families are connected to each other through marriage and descent - finding that during the most dynamic period in European industrial development, class formation, and state reorganization, Europe became a “kinship hot” society. The essays in this volume explore two major transitions in kinship patterns - at the end of the Middle Ages and at the end of the eighteenth century - in an effort to reset the agenda in family history.
Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe
Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe write by Hannes Grandits. This book was released on 2010. Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this volume the authors examine the history of the family during the twentieth century in the context of political struggles over the welfare state, gender roles and parental authority. They ask how far political measures have contributed to changes in family life, and whether these should be understood as a weakening, or as a redefinition of traditional kinship roles."--
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology write by Jeanette Edwards. This book was released on 2009. European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this interest was stimulated by the 'new genetics' and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and 'belonging' in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Why is genetically modified food an issue? Are 'genes' and 'blood' interchangeable? It has been argued that the recent prominence of genetic science and genetic technologies has resulted in a 'geneticization' of social life; the ethnographic examples presented here do show shifts occurring in notions of 'nature' and of what is 'natural'. But, they also illustrate the complexity of contemporary kinship thinking in Europe and the continued interconnectedness of biological and sociological understandings of relatedness and the relationship between nature and nurture.
Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe
Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe write by Hans Hummer. This book was released on 2018-05-03. Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring this question, Hans Hummer offers a searching re-examination of kinship in Europe between late Roman times and the high middle ages, the period bridging Europe's primitive past and its modern future. Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe critiques the modernist and Western bio-genealogical and functionalist assumptions that have shaped kinship studies since their inception in the nineteenth century, when Biblical time collapsed and kinship became a signifier of the essential secularity of history and a method for conceptualizing a deep prehistory guided by autogenous human impulses. Hummer argues that this understanding of kinship is fundamentally antagonistic to medieval sentiments and is responsible for the frustrations researchers have encountered as they have tried to identify the famously elusive kin groups of medieval Europe. He delineates an alternative ethnographic approach inspired by recent anthropological work that privileges indigenous expressions of kinship and the interpretive potential of native ontologies. This study reveals that kinship in the middle ages was not biological, primitive, or a regulator of social mechanisms; nor was it traceable by bio-genealogical connections. In the Middle Ages, kinship signified a sociality that flowed from convictions about the divine source of all things and which wove together families, institutions, and divinities into an expansive eschatological vision animated by 'the most righteous principle of love'.
