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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2010
Print publication year:
1997
Online ISBN:
9780511572562

Book description

This work analyses shifts in the relations of families, households, and individuals in a single German village during the transition to a modern social structure and cultural order. The findings call into question the idea that the more modern society became, the less kin mattered. Rather, the opposite happened. During 'modernization', close kin developed a flexible set of exchanges, passing marriage partners, godparents, political favors, work contacts, and financial guarantees back and forth. Sabean also argues that the new kinship systems were fundamental for class formation, and he repositions women in the center of a political culture of alliance construction. One of a series of important local studies coming out of the Max Planck Institute for History, it is the most thorough-going attempt to work between the disciplines of social and cultural history and anthropology, and it demonstrates the power of microhistory to reconceptualize general historical trends.

Reviews

"...a superb piece of scholarship, which speaks to the interests of specialists working in different disciplines with different geographical concentrations." Karl Wegert, Canadian Journal of History

"This volume is without doubt the most theoretically well-informed, methodologically most sophisticated, and archivally best researched work in English on the History of community-level kinship in the European past." Anjrejs Plakans, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"Powerful and thought-provoking, Sabean's work has once again clarified our 'thinking about past social processes.'" Journal of Social History

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