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Historical Anthropology of the Family

Paperback • 1986 • English

Historical Anthropology of the Family

By Martine Segalen

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This historical anthropology of the family represents a new departure in family studies. Over the past ten years or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has undergone a change, and has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled all social functions from socialising the children to caring for the sick and the old, to the modern nuclear family, which was regarded solely as...Show more

Social theory
Sociology: family and relationships
Anthropology

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ISBN

9780521276702

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1986

Language

English

Original title

Historical Anthropology of the Family

Format

Paperback

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