In-Laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England (Routledge Library Editions: Marriage) - Hardcover

Wolfram, Sybil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032463880 ISBN 13: 9781032463889

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Originally published in 1987, this book presented for the first time a unified treatment of English kinship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This system, far from being a patchwork of historical accidents, has a remarkably logical overall structure, permeating both law and custom. To understand it one must study a wide variety of sources ranging from Parliamentary debates through accounts of contemporary events, cases and incidents to fiction of the day.

The work is pertinent to current studies in a number of fields: in history it represents a systematic overview, highlighting new sources of material, while for lawyers it gives a historical context and explanation of ‘family law’, particularly topical for impending English legislation in this area at the time. It collects two centuries of sociological data, and presents social anthropologists with the English system for comparison with systems conventionally studied in the field and with kinship theory. Finally, it provides philosophers with a new arena in which to discuss the nature of explanations of human activities, besides raising fresh questions.

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Sybil Wolfram

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032463880
• ISBN 13: 9781032463889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266