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Since the publication of Philippe Ariès’s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of

This collection of essays considers the current significance of kinship in various Western European countries along with manifestations of its cultural diversit

What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of di

The penultimate volume in this series explores the effect that industrialisation, new technology, the growth of cities, and the revolutions in transport and in

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term developm