This book analyzes shifts in the relations of families, households, and individuals in a single German village during the transition to a modern social structure and cultural order. The findings call into question the idea that the more modern society became, the less kin mattered. Rather, the opposite happened. During "modernization," close kin developed a flexible set of exchanges, passing marriage partners, godparents, political favors, work contacts, and financial guarantees back and forth. These new kinship systems were fundamental for class formation. The author also repositions women in the center of the political culture of alliances.
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"...a superb piece of scholarship, which speaks to the interests of specialists working in different disciplines with different geographical concentrations." Karl Wegert, Canadian Journal of History
"This volume is without doubt the most theoretically well-informed, methodologically most sophisticated, and archivally best researched work in English on the History of community-level kinship in the European past." Anjrejs Plakans, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Powerful and thought-provoking, Sabean's work has once again clarified our 'thinking about past social processes.'" Journal of Social History
"This volume is without doubt the most theoretically well-informed, methodologically most sophisticated, and archivally best researched work in English on the History of community-level kinship in the European past." Anjrejs Plakans, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Powerful and thought-provoking, Sabean's work has once again clarified our 'thinking about past social processes.'" Journal of Social History
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This book analyses shifts in the relations of families, households, and individuals in a single German village during the transition to a modern social structure and cultural order. The findings call into question the idea that the more modern society became, the less kin mattered. Rather, the opposite happened. During "modernization," close kin developed a flexible set of exchanges, passing marriage partners, godparents, political favors, work contacts, and financial guarantees back and forth. These new kinship systems were fundamental for class formation. Sabean also repositions women in the center of the political culture of alliances.
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During the three decades it took to put this study together, visions of Casaubon danced in my head, while all about me scholarly interest in population studies and in kinship analysis was on a steep decline. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consanguineal marriages, village patriciate, tax quartiles, marital successor, field patrolman, forest patrolman, affinai marriages, patrilineal alliances, kin match, generational plane, familial endogamy, independent agricultural producers, lineage quarters, patrimonial lines, systematic alliances, consanguineal kin, cousin politics, affinal networks, wealth strata, cousin networks, agnatic bias, agnatic cousins, partible inheritance system, tithe lease, sibling exchange Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Johann Georg, Salomon Hentzler, Hans Jerg, Friedrich Krumm, David Warren Sabean, Gall Feldmaier, Christoph Hentzler, Anna Maria, Mathes Sterr, Wilhelm Hentzler, Johann Anna, Pierre Bourdieu, New York, Schultheiss Hiller, Brave Frauen, Hans Medick, Martine Segalen, Michael Feldmaier, Schultheiss Krumm, Anna Catharina, Briefwechsel Kestner, Conrad Hiller, Marion Kaplan, South Bigouden, Andreas Hentzler New!
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During the three decades it took to put this study together, visions of Casaubon danced in my head, while all about me scholarly interest in population studies and in kinship analysis was on a steep decline. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consanguineal marriages, village patriciate, tax quartiles, marital successor, field patrolman, forest patrolman, affinai marriages, patrilineal alliances, kin match, generational plane, familial endogamy, independent agricultural producers, lineage quarters, patrimonial lines, systematic alliances, consanguineal kin, cousin politics, affinal networks, wealth strata, cousin networks, agnatic bias, agnatic cousins, partible inheritance system, tithe lease, sibling exchange Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Johann Georg, Salomon Hentzler, Hans Jerg, Friedrich Krumm, David Warren Sabean, Gall Feldmaier, Christoph Hentzler, Anna Maria, Mathes Sterr, Wilhelm Hentzler, Johann Anna, Pierre Bourdieu, New York, Schultheiss Hiller, Brave Frauen, Hans Medick, Martine Segalen, Michael Feldmaier, Schultheiss Krumm, Anna Catharina, Briefwechsel Kestner, Conrad Hiller, Marion Kaplan, South Bigouden, Andreas Hentzler New!
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- Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship (MSH: Colloques) by Hans Medick on 15 pages
- Family Fortunes: Men and women of the English Middle Class 1750-1850 by Leonore Davidoff on 10 pages
- Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis by Jane Collier on 4 pages
- The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (Past and Present Publications) by Jack Goody on 4 pages
- Kinship in Bali by Hildred Geertz on page 8, page 28, and Back Matter
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- A Companion to Western Historical Thought (Blackwell Companions to History) by Lloyd Kramer on page 295, and Back Matter
- Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland by Daphne Berdahl in Back Matter
- The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s-1820s by Ian F. McNeely in Back Matter
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