The Family: A World History

by Ann Waltner and Mary Jo Maynes

Book Overview

People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules governing marriage in societies around the ancient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195338146
• ISBN13: 9780195338140
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"