The Making of the Modern Greek Family
Subtitle: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 29, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521400817
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Economic conditions; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Family; History - General History; Marriage; Sociology; History; Europe - Greece; Social History; Family--Greece--Athens--History--19th century; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - Cultural; 19th century; Athens; Athens (Greece); Greece
First sentence: Anthropological research on the Greek world, as elsewhere in the Mediterranean, has long concentrated on the family, the household, the transmission of property (especially the dowry) within the family, and more recently on the construction of gender identities and power relations in rural areas.