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 is the first work to address all these aspects of the family over time and across the earth--to search out what the family means in its ...
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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 is the first work to address all these aspects 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? Francoise Zonabend's anthropological perspective on these questions, leading off Volume I, surveys familial terms and arrangements from familiar patrilinear models to matrilinear societies in Sumatra and Ghana to polyandry among the Nayar and the Toda of India. The following essays, which move from prehistory to antiquity to the middle ages, trace the evolution of the family from primate behavior to codified practices--in Sumer and Babylon and ancient Rome, in feudal Europe and medieval Byzantium, in China and Japan and Arab Islam--and relate these developments to religious, economic, and governmental concerns from land ownership to dynastic control and the maintenance of public order.
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VG in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; 1st English edition, Belknap Press hardcover w/ DJ, 1996. Book is VG, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is VG, w/ light edge/shelf wear (no tears or chips). Free delivery confirmation.
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Good in Good dust jacket. Pages clean except for very small, dark spots on the outside edges of the page block and at the endpapers; no owners' marks; hard cover is also speckled and shows some softening at corners and spine ends, and dust jacket shows chipping at corners and spine ends, a short abrasion at the left front and another at the bottom rear, and a short, closed tear at the top rear, otherwise sound. Jacket is now protected in a clear sleeve. x, 713pp. incl. index.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Illustrated in black and white. x, 713 pages. Thick 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. First Harvard University edition. Press materials inserted. Near fine in a near fine dust wrapper.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Two volumes. First editions, 1996. Cloth hardcovers in dust jackets, 143 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copies in Near Fine dust jackets.
