Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship

by David Warren Sabean and Hans Medick

Bringing together the work of anthropologists and historians, this volume, first published in 1984, challenges the notion that interests and emotions are polar opposites, and questions how far the history of the family in Europe and America can be organized around the central trend of 'sentimentalization'. Individual chapters examine in a comparative perspective the use of kin; property relations inheritance; family exploitation of labor; claims,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521357632
• ISBN13: 9780521357630
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"