| Edition |
First Harvard University Press edition. |
| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
v. 1. Distant worlds, ancient worlds. An anthropological perspective on kinship and the family / Françoise Zonabend -- Prehistory of the family / Claude Masset -- From Sumer to Babylon : families as landowners and families as rulers / Jean-Jacques Glassner -- The survival of the family name and the Pharaonic order / Annie Forgeau -- The desire for transcendence : the Hebrew family model and Jewish family practices / Frank Alvarez-Pereyre and Florence Heymann -- The family in ancient Athens (fifth-fourth century BC) / Giulia Sissa -- Fathers as citizens of Rome, Rome as a city of fathers (second century BC-second century AD) / Yan Thomas -- The family under the Roman Empire : signs and gestures / Aline Rousselle -- Barbarian Europe / Pierre Guichard and Jean-Pierre Cuvillier -- The Carolingian moment (eighth-tenth century) / Pierre Toubert -- The feudal era (eleventh-thirteenth century) / Robert Fossier -- Europe : town and country (thirteenth-fifteenth century) / Henri Bresc -- Families and kinships in Byzantium / Évelyne Patlagean -- China : the family as a relay of government / Michel Cartier -- Japan : a household society / Patrick Beillevaire -- The world order and the family institution in India / Roland Lardinois -- The family in Arab Islam / Thierry Bianquis. |
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v. 2. The impact of modernity. The one hundred and one families of Europe / André Burguière and François Lebrun -- Priest, prince and family / André Burguière and François Lebrun -- Children of the apocalypse : family in Meso-America and the Andes / Carmen Bernand and Serge Gruzinski -- The long march of the Chinese family / Michel Cartier -- The family : instrument and model of the Japanese nation / Patrick Beillevaire -- India : the family, the state and women / Roland Lardinois -- Africa : the family at the crossroads / Jean-Pierre Dozon -- The Arab world : the family as fortress / Philippe Fargues -- The Industrial Revolution : from proletariat to bourgeoisie / Martine Segalen -- Love and liberty : the contemporary American family / Hervé Varenne -- Socialist families / Basile Kerblay -- The Scandinavian model / David Gaunt and Louise Nyström -- Families in France / Martine Segalen and Françoise Zonabend -- The family : what next? / André Burguière. |
| Subject |
Families -- History.
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| Added Author |
Burguière, André.
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| ISBN |
0674396758 v. 1 |
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9780674396753 v. 1 |
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0674396766 v. 2 |
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9780674396760 v. 2 |
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067439674X (vols. I & II) |
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9780674396746 (vols. I & II) |
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