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The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations.

Table of Contents
The meaning of family; the role of the ancestors; the politics of family; the arranged marriage; the nature of passion; the economics of the household; the rise of domesticity.

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 29/09/1989
      ISBN13: 9780631146698, 978-0631146698
      ISBN10: 0631146695
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      Anthropology Social, group or collective psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations.

      Table of Contents
      The meaning of family; the role of the ancestors; the politics of family; the arranged marriage; the nature of passion; the economics of the household; the rise of domesticity.

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