ISBN:
9780511572562
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 628 pages)
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DDC:
306.83/0943/46
Keywords:
Ethnohistory
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Families
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Kinship
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Kinship ; Germany ; Neckarhausen (Nürtingen)
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Families ; Germany ; Neckarhausen (Nürtingen)
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Ethnohistory ; Germany ; Neckarhausen (Nürtingen)
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Neckarhausen (Nürtingen, Germany) ; Social life and customs
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Neckarhausen (Nürtingen, Germany) Social life and customs
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Neckarhausen
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Verwandtschaft
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Geschichte 1700-1870
Abstract:
This work 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. 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. One of a series of important local studies coming out of the Max Planck Institute for History, it is the most thorough-going attempt to work between the disciplines of social and cultural history and anthropology, and it demonstrates the power of microhistory to reconceptualize general historical trends
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. 1. An introduction to kinship. 2. Vetterleswirtschaft: Rise and fall of a political discourse. 3. The politics of incest and the ecology of alliance formation -- Cohort I (1700-1709). 4. Introduction to kinship during the early decades of the eighteenth century. 5. Kinship as a factor in marriage strategy. 6. Marriage and kinship practices. 7. Ritual kinship. 8. Naming children -- Cohort II (1740-1749). 9. Restructuring the system of alliance. 10. Village politics at midcentury -- Cohort III (1780-1789). 11. Consanguinity as a principle of alliance. 12. The formation of an alliance system. 13. Ritual kinship and alternative alliance. 14. Naming and patrilineal alliance -- Cohort IV (1820-1829).
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511572562
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