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Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870

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xxviii, 628 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This work 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. Sabean's 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.
In many families, generation after generation married cousins. Sabean also argues that the new kinship systems were fundamental for class formation, and he repositions women in the center of a political culture of alliance construction. Modern Europe became a kinship "hot" society during the modern era, only to see the modern alliance system break apart during the transition to the postmodern era.

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Contents

Introduction. 1. An introduction to kinship. 2. Vetterleswirtschaft: Rise and fall of a political discourse. 3. The politics of incest and the ecology of alliance formation -- Cohort I (1700-1709). 4. Introduction to kinship during the early decades of the eighteenth century. 5. Kinship as a factor in marriage strategy. 6. Marriage and kinship practices. 7. Ritual kinship. 8. Naming children -- Cohort II (1740-1749). 9. Restructuring the system of alliance. 10. Village politics at midcentury -- Cohort III (1780-1789). 11. Consanguinity as a principle of alliance. 12. The formation of an alliance system. 13. Ritual kinship and alternative alliance. 14. Naming and patrilineal alliance -- Cohort IV (1820-1829). 15. Kinship at the beginning of the nineteenth century. 16. Kinship and practice at the turn of the century -- Cohort V (1860-1869). 17. Kinship in the mid-nineteenth-century village: An introduction. 18. Networking with kin around the mid nineteenth century.
19. Matrifocal alliance -- Conclusion. 20. Neckarhausen in European comparative perspective. 21. Consanguinity in modern Europe. 22. Kinship and class formation. 23. Kinship and gender.

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97034087

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Columbia University Libraries