ISBN:
9781009123211
Language:
English
Pages:
pages cm
Edition:
First Edition
Series Statement:
Greek Culture in the Roman World
DDC:
306.09561
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Human ecology
;
Kinship
;
Villages
Abstract:
"This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and pre-modern rural societies"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Hieradoumia -- Commemorative Cultures -- Demography -- Kinship Terminology -- Household Forms -- The Circulation of Children -- Beyond the Family -- Rural Sanctuaries -- Village Society -- City, Village, Kin-Group
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
2211
