The Stem Family In Eurasian Perspective

Author : Antoinette Fauve,Emiko Ochiai
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Families
ISBN : 3039117394

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The Stem Family in Eurasian Perspective by Antoinette Fauve,Emiko Ochiai Pdf

Is the Asian stem family different from its European counterpart? This question is a central issue in this collection of essays assembled by two historians of the family in Eurasian perspective. The stem family is characterized by the residential rule that only one married child remains with the parents. This rule has a direct effect upon household structure. In short, the stem family is a domestic unit of production and reproduction that persists over generations, handing down the patrimony through non-egalitarian inheritance. In spite of its ambiguous status in current family typology as something lurking in the valley between the nuclear family and the joint family, the stem family was an important family form in pre-industrial Western Europe and has been a focus of the European family history since Frédéric Le Play and more recently Peter Laslett. However, the encounter with Asian family history has revealed that many areas in Asia also had and still have a considerable proportion of households with a stem-family structure. The stem family debate has entered a new stage. In this book, some studies that benefited from recently created large databases present micro-level analyses of dynamic aspects of family systems, while others discuss more broadly the rise and fall of family systems, past and present. A main concern of this book is whether the family type in a society is ethno-culturally determined and resistant to changes or created by socio-economic conditions. Such a comparison that includes Asian countries activates a new phase of the discussion on the stem family and family systems in a global perspective.

Author : Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Acquisition of property
ISBN : OCLC:833372165

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House and the Stem Family in EurAsian Perspective by Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Pdf

Author : Mary Elizabeth Berry,Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520316089

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What Is a Family? by Mary Elizabeth Berry,Marcia Yonemoto Pdf

What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603–1868). The households studied here differ in locale and in status—from samurai to outcaste, peasant to merchant—but what unites them is life within the social order of the Tokugawa shogunate. The circumstances and choices that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. These factors led the majority to form stem families, which are a focus of this volume. The essays in this book draw on rich sources—population registers, legal documents, personal archives, and popular literature—to combine accounts of collective practices (such as the adoption of heirs) with intimate portraits of individual actors (such as a murderous wife). They highlight the variety and adaptability of households that, while shaped by a shared social order, do not conform to any stereotypical version of a Japanese family. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Author : Pamela Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134586646

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Women, Gender and Labour Migration by Pamela Sharpe Pdf

Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old paradigms, such as the push/pull motivation which used to dominate the field of migration studies. The authors consider women's experience of migration, especially in long distance, transnational moves. They examine the extent to which labour migration is a social and strategic decision for women.

Author : Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez,Miguel Ángel Gallo
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781801175807

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The Power of Inclusion in Family Business by Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez,Miguel Ángel Gallo Pdf

The Power of Inclusion in Family Business is a guide for grooming the next generation of responsible women owners in family businesses, so they can thrive, achieve, and become leaders and wealth stewards in their multigenerational family firms and family offices.

Author : Kees Mandemakers,George Alter,Hélène Vézina,Paul Puschmann
Publisher : Radboud University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789493296176

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Sowing by Kees Mandemakers,George Alter,Hélène Vézina,Paul Puschmann Pdf

Twenty-three major databases containing historical longitudinal population data are presented and discussed in this volume, focusing on their aims, content, design, and structure. Some of these databases are based on pure longitudinal sources, such as population registers that continuously observe and record demographic events, including migration and family and household composition. Other databases are family reconstitutions, based on birth, marriage and death records. The third and last category consists of semi-longitudinal databases, that combine, for instance, civil records and censuses and/ or tax registers. The volume traces the origins of historical longitudinal databases from the 1970s and discusses their expansion worldwide, in terms of sources and hard- and software. The contributions highlight the unique genesis and common developmental arcs of these databases, which are rooted in the fields of quantitative history, social and demographic history, and the history of ordinary people. The importance of these databases in advancing knowledge and insights in various disciplines is emphasized and demonstrated, along with the challenges and opportunities they face. The collection of technical descriptions of these databases represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of large database with longitudinal micro-data on historical populations. It includes descriptions of databases from Europe, North America, East-Asia, Australia, South-Africa and Suriname. Technical details, in terms of data entry, cleaning, standardization and record linkage are meticulously documented. The volume is a must-have for all scholars in the field of historical life course studies.

Author : Hamish Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191015335

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 by Hamish Scott Pdf

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, social and economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.

Author : Hamish M. Scott
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199597253

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 by Hamish M. Scott Pdf

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, social and economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.

Author : Margarida Durães,Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 3034300565

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The Transmission of Well-being by Margarida Durães,Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Pdf

What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Their sheer chances of survival, their protection from want, their social status, their individual agency and their self-esteem were all strongly mediated by the family, the predominant social institution. Family laws and customs of family formation created differences between insiders and outsiders in terms of well-being. Within families, there were strong differences in autonomy, status and freedom between the genders and generations. The book offers a fascinating exploration of gender differences in well-being in many regions of historic Europe, with some comparative perspectives. It explores how historic family systems differed with respect to choosing a marriage partner, transmitting property, living and care conditions of widows and widowers and the position of children born out of wedlock.

Author : Christer Lundh,Satomi Kurosu
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262027946

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Similarity in Difference by Christer Lundh,Satomi Kurosu Pdf

A study of marriage in preindustrial Europe and Asia that goes beyond the Malthusian East–West dichotomy to find variation within regions and commonality across regions. Since Malthus, an East–West dichotomy has been used to characterize marriage behavior in Asia and Europe. Marriages in Asia were said to be early and universal, in Europe late and non-universal. In Europe, marriages were supposed to be the result of individual choices but, in Asia, decided by families and communities. This book challenges this binary taxonomy of marriage patterns and family systems. Drawing on richer and more nuanced data, the authors compare the interpretations based on aggregate demographic patterns with studies of individual actions in local populations. Doing so, they are able to analyze simultaneously the influence on marriage decisions of individual demographic features, socioeconomic status and composition of the household, and local conditions, and the interactions of these variables. They find differences between East and West but also variation within regions and commonality across regions. The book studies local populations in Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Japan, and China. Rather than a simple comparison of aggregate marriage patterns, it examines marriage outcomes and determinants of local populations in different countries using similar data and methods. The authors first present the results of comparative analyses of first marriage and remarriage and then offer chapters each of which is devoted to the results from a specific country. Similarity in Difference is the third in a prizewinning series on the demographic history of Eurasia, following Life under Pressure (2004) and Prudence and Pressure (2009), both published by the MIT Press.

Author : Mary Louise Nagata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134281435

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Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan by Mary Louise Nagata Pdf

Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital and smallest of the three great cities of the Tokugawa period, but the data comes from a wider region of commercial and castle towns and rural villages in central Japan.

Author : Norbert F. Schneider,Michaela Kreyenfeld
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788975544

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Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family by Norbert F. Schneider,Michaela Kreyenfeld Pdf

Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour.

Author : Tindara Addabbo,Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga,Alastair Owens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317130185

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Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe by Tindara Addabbo,Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga,Alastair Owens Pdf

Feminist scholars have long pointed out the relevance of the unpaid work that goes on within European households in sustaining the well-being of the continent's populations. However, care work and domestic labour continue to be largely unremunerated and unequally distributed by gender. This unique volume of interdisciplinary essays casts new light on the roles that households play in securing the well-being of individuals and families, uncovering the processes of bargaining and accommodation, and conflict and compromise that underpin them. Contributors put gender at the centre of their analyses, demonstrating the uneven experiences of men and women as both providers and receivers of welfare in European households, in both the past and the present. As European states grapple with changing family forms, a growing population of dependent people, increased participation of women in labour markets and a profound shift in the nature and organisation of work, this book makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the critical role played by households in mediating processes of economic and social change. It offers new challenges to scholars, researchers and policy makers eager to address gender inequalities and enhance well-being. This book is the second of four volumes being published as part of Ashgate's 'Gender and Well-Being' series that arise from a programme of international symposia funded by the European Science Foundation under the auspices of COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research).

Author : Margareth Lanzinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317637387

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The Power of the Fathers by Margareth Lanzinger Pdf

The book examines the topic of paternal authority as it developed over a long period of time. The focus is on the power of fathers as manifested within a complex fabric of legal, social, economic, political and moral aspects. In early modern times, a father’s power was based upon his personal and legal position as the one responsible for the family and the household in the sense of an economic unit, as well as on his moral authority over all those who belonged to said household. At the same time, the father was subject to public control, and his legal status was characterized not only by power, but also by obligations. This status was modelled after the figure of the pater familias as conceived of in Roman law—a concept that remained relevant up into the nineteenth century, though not without changes. Ultimately, the figure of the pater familias came to overlap with the modern-era perception of fathers’ disempowerment. The chapters of this book analyse the public responsibility of fathers in the case of an adulterous daughter, legal acts of emancipation by which a son could gain independence from his father, and various opinions with regard to "indulgent" fathering, paternal authority over married sons, and provisions set out in wills. This book was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.

Author : Dalia Leinarte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319510828

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The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914 by Dalia Leinarte Pdf

This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to respond to the external factors that had an impact on the family life, including transmission of inheritance and household structure. Lithuania was part of the Tsarist Empire until 1914. This case study reveals how under often restrictive laws and policies – serfdom up to 1861, and the pervasive role of the Church, in addition to deep-rooted customary practices – women and men manage to normalize their family life. The volume is based on a wide range of archival sources and uncovers familial behaviour both from an individual and community perspectives.