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The European Family
Jack Goody
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Description for The European Family
Hardback. This is a concise, yet wide--ranging, history of the family in Europe from antiquity to the present day. Series: Making of Europe. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
This is a concise, yet wide-ranging, history of the family in Europe from antiquity to the present day.
This is a concise, yet wide-ranging, history of the family in Europe from antiquity to the present day.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Making of Europe
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631201564
SKU
V9780631201564
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99-50
About Jack Goody
Jack Goody is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge from 1973 to 1985. He has written extensively on the family, memory, ritual, and literacy, in a wide variety of regional and historical contexts. His many books include Death, Property and the Ancestors (1962), The Domestication of the Savage Mind ... Read more
Reviews for The European Family
"Goody's writing is always focused, concise to the point of economy, and never driven by a particular ideology or by political correctness. This is a book that stimulates the reader to take a long view of the family and one that counsels wisely against making generalisations and jumping to simple conclusions about the past." The Times Higher Education Supplement ... Read more