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.

Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship (MSH: Colloques)

Science & Math

Sabean, David Warren

Medick, Hans

Behavioral Sciences

Cambridge University Press

This book is based on a series of episodes from village or small town life in the duchy of WÜrttemberg in southwest Germany between 1580 and 1800, in which state authorities conducted a special investigation into local events. The cases and characters involved include peasants' refusal to celebrate church rituals; a self-proclaimed prophet who encountered an angel in his vineyard; a thirteen-year-old-witch; a paranoid pastor; a murder; and live burial of a village bull.

Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany

History

Americas

Europe

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.

Parenting & Relationships

One of the most important works in social history of recent decades, this landmark study deals with the ordinary experiences of people who lived in a village in Southern Germany. By focusing on the internal relations of the family, David Sabean explores the ways in which the family shaped both property and production in Neckarhausen. Situated on the upper Neckar river, between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alp, Neckarhausen provides a classic example of small peasant agriculture characterized by ever more intensive use of soils as succeeding families worked ever smaller plots of land. In 1700, Neckarhausen had largely recovered from the Thirty Years War and had established the landholding pattern and occupational structure that would characterize it until the late nineteenth century. By 1870, the population had tripled in size and the village had experienced a green revolution and had become enmeshed in regional and international markets. This in-depth study of Neckarhausen is divided into four parts: an introduction to social and economic change, sources and concepts; an analysis of relationships between husbands and wives; a consideration of relationships between generations; and a discussion of kinship and the transfer of property.

Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 73)

This book analyzes 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. These new kinship systems were fundamental for class formation. The author also repositions women in the center of the political culture of alliances.

Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870

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Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship (MSH: Colloques)

Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany

Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany

Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship (MSH: Colloques)

Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 73)

Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 73)

Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870

Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870