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Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe
. Ed(S): Heady, Patrick; Schweitzer, Peter
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Paperback. Over the years, a consensus has grown among European policy specialists that kinship should play a larger role in the welfare state. This title examines the fundamental questions about such kinship ties and seeks to understand how and why family members help each other and in what circumstances they might withhold their aid. Editor(s): Heady, Patrick; Schweitzer, Peter. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 786.
Over the past few years, a consensus has grown among European policy specialists that kinship should play a larger role in the welfare state. "Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe" examines the fundamental questions about such kinship ties and seeks to understand how and why family members help each other and in what circumstances they might withhold their aid. The editors and their collaborators have gathered here three volumes of historical, sociological, and ethnographic studies that inform readers about the diversity of kin relationships in contemporary Europe, the strengths and weaknesses of the various systems, and the extent to ... Read more
Over the past few years, a consensus has grown among European policy specialists that kinship should play a larger role in the welfare state. "Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe" examines the fundamental questions about such kinship ties and seeks to understand how and why family members help each other and in what circumstances they might withhold their aid. The editors and their collaborators have gathered here three volumes of historical, sociological, and ethnographic studies that inform readers about the diversity of kin relationships in contemporary Europe, the strengths and weaknesses of the various systems, and the extent to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Campus Verlag Germany
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
505
Place of Publication
Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN
9783593389622
SKU
V9783593389622
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About . Ed(S): Heady, Patrick; Schweitzer, Peter
Patrick Heady is a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and an honorary research fellow at University College London. Hannes Grandits is a senior lecturer in Southeast European history at the University of Graz. Peter Schweitzer is professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Martin Kohli is professor of sociology at the European University ... Read more
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