Kinship in Neckarhausen: 1700 - 1870

This work 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. Sabean's findings call into question the idea that the more modern society became, the less kin mattered. Rather,...

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Main Author: Sabean, David Warren 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
Edition:1. publ.
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Summary:This work 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. Sabean's 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. In many families, generation after generation married cousins. Sabean also argues that the new kinship systems were fundamental for class formation, and he repositions women in the center of a political culture of alliance construction. Modern Europe became a kinship "hot" society during the modern era, only to see the modern alliance system break apart during the transition to the postmodern era.
Physical Description:XXVIII, 628 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0521583810
0521586577

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