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The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens - Couverture rigide

Livre 49 sur 95: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Cassia, Paul Sant

 
9780521400817: The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521400813 ISBN 13 : 9780521400817
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This 1991 study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century. These forms then became a feature of wider Greek society which continued into the twentieth century. Greece was the first post-colonial modern nation state in Europe whose national identity was created largely by peasants who had migrated to the city. As Athenian society became less agrarian, a new mercantile group superseded and incorporated previous elites and went on to dominate and control the new resources of the nation state. Such groups developed their own, more mobile, systems of property transmission, mostly in response to external pressures of a political and economic character. This is a persuasive piece of detective work which has advanced our knowledge of modern Greece. It is a model for scholarship on the development of family and other 'intimate' ideologies where nation states encroach upon local consciousness.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This 1991 study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century. These forms then became a feature of wider Greek society which continued into the twentieth century. Greece was the first post-colonial modern nation state in Europe whose national identity was created largely by peasants who had migrated to the city. As Athenian society became less agrarian, a new mercantile group superseded and incorporated previous elites and went on to dominate and control the new resources of the nation state. Such groups developed their own, more mobile, systems of property transmission, mostly in response to external pressures of a political and economic character. This is a persuasive piece of detective work which has advanced our knowledge of modern Greece. It is a model for scholarship on the development of family and other 'intimate' ideologies where nation states encroach upon local consciousness.

Revue de presse

'I feel that the authors have successfully presented valuable material on Greek marriage in the nineteenth century... They offer some brilliant insights for the careful reader to discover.' INTAMS: International Academy for Marital Spirituality

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521400813
ISBN 13 
9780521400817
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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