Joan Bestard-Camps

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Household and Family in Formentera

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Produktbeschreibung

In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000323092
• Artikelnr.: 60770805

Autorenporträt

Joan Bestard-Camps Lecturer in Social Anthropology,University of Barcelona Translated from the Spanish by Robert Pitt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Josep LloberaI IntroductionKinship in FormenteraParadoxes in the
study of kinshipFamily historyThe complex structures of kinshipII Systems
of ClassificationNames and naming ritualGenealogies, names and family
memoryThe name of the houseIdeas about kinship and the language of
communityIII Household FormsThe model of the peasant familyFamily and
residence: morphology and functionsThe structure of the residential group
(1875-1955) a) Household composition b) Types of kin beyond the conjugal
nucleusThe domestic cycle a) Household composition and age of Ego b) Phases
in the domestic cycle c) Transformations in household compositionIV Ways of
Living: Past and PresentThe domestic spaceThe houses of
emigrantsContinuity: the `porxo', multifunctional spaceThe break in the
present: family time and social timeV Household ReproductionThe house as
social representationPatrimonial lines and the conjugal fundThe matrimonial
domainMarriages between consanguine kin and the significance of matrimonial
prohibitionsClose matrimonial strategiesAppendix Census of surnames on
Formentera in 1934BibliographyIndex