The Making of the Modern Greek Family
Subtitle: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521028264
Subjects: Family & relationships; Social & cultural anthropology; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Greece; Europe - Greece; Social History; Family--Greece--Athens--History--19th century; History / Greece; History : Social History; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Archaeology / Anthropology; Anthropology - Cultural; 19th century; Athens; Family; History; Marriage
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.