Interest and Emotion
Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship
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- Authors:
- Hans Medick
- David Warren Sabean
- Date Published: July 1988
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521357630
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Bringing together the work of anthropologists and historians, this volume, first published in 1984, challenges the notion that interests and emotions are polar opposites, and questions how far the history of the family in Europe and America can be organized around the central trend of 'sentimentalization'. Individual chapters examine in a comparative perspective the use of kin; property relations inheritance; family exploitation of labor; claims, demands, and expectations with respect to kin; the emotional economy of familial obligations; and family and the reproduction of social and class relations. Several chapters discuss relations among close family members, examining the ways in which property and labor organization are related to conflicts, personal interest, and the patterning of emotional response.
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- Date Published: July 1988
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521357630
- length: 430 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean
Part I. Family and the Economy of Emotion:
1. Interest and emotion in family and kinship studies: a critique of social history and anthropology Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean
2. Putting kin and kinship to good use: the circulation of goods, labour, and names on Karpathos (Greece) Bernard Vernier
Part II. Materna in Extremis: the Clash of Interests between Mother and Child:
3. Infanticide in rural Barvaria in the nineteenth century Regina Schulte
4. Possession and dispossession: maternity and mortality in Morocco Vanessa Maher
Part III. Property in the Mediation of Family Relations:
5. 'Avoir sa part': sibling relations in partible inheritance Brittany Martine Segalen
6. Tensions, dissensions, and ruptures inside the family in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Haute Provence Alain Collomp
7. Young bees in an empty hive: relations between brother-in-law in a South German village around 1800 David Warren Sabean.
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