A History of the Family, Volume I Distant Worlds, Ancient Worlds
Burguiere, Andre & Christiane Klapisch-Zuber & Martine Segalen & Francois Zonabend
Language: English
Published by Belknap Press at Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1996
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Edited by Andre Burguiere, others. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996. First Thus. 8vo. x,713pp, Index, Bibliography. Black boards, gilt letters. Book in fine condition, dj slightly worn and rubbed, few short tears. Antiquity (7 essays); Medieval Times (5 chapters); Distant Times (4 chapters). Introduced by Claude Levi-Strauss and George Duby. Translated by Sarah H. Tenison, Rosemary Morris and Andrew Wilson. ISBN 0674396758; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 713 pages.
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- A History of the Family, Volume I Distant Worlds, Ancient Worlds
- Author
- Burguiere, Andre & Christiane Klapisch-Zuber & Martine Segalen & Francois Zonabend
- Publisher
- Belknap Press at Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
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- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674396758
- ISBN 13
- 9780674396753
- Edition
- 1st Thus.
This monumental work in two volumes brings together experts from every discipline to show what the study of each epoch has to tell us about the family. Why is the family universal and yet so different in its various cultural manifestations? What notions of kinship regulate it, and how do these develop and change?
Françoise Zonabend's anthropological perspective on these questions, leading off Volume I, surveys familial terms and arrangements from familiar patrilinear models to matrilinear societies in Sumatra and Ghana to polyandry among the Nayar and the Toda of India. The following essays, which move from prehistory to antiquity to the middle ages, trace the evolution of the family from primate behavior to codified practices--in Sumer and Babylon and ancient Rome, in feudal Europe and medieval Byzantium, in China and Japan and Arab Islam--and relate these developments to religious, economic, and governmental concerns from land ownership to dynastic control and the maintenance of public order.
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