A History of the Family - André Burguière (Ed.)

Two volumes

KORTE INHOUD

A History of the Family - 2 volumes:
Volume I: distant worlds, ancient worlds
Volume II: the impact of modernity.
Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations.
As old as the prehistoric bones jumbled in caves, as new as the latest union consummated in a test tube, the family in one form or another is at the heart of every society. Our most common institution, it is also the source of some of the world's most compelling and persistent questions, touching the very quick of history, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
'A History of the Family over time and across the earth - to search out what the family means in its most particular and universal senses.
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 ...
1996Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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1996Uitgever: Belknap Press1298 paginasTaal: Engels