Brian O'Neill, O'Neill Brian Juan

Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet

Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870 1978

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based both on extensive fieldwork and detailed study of local records, O'Neill offers a different perspective to the traditional image of northern Iberian mountain settlements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9780521040426
• ISBN-10: 0521040426
• Artikelnr.: 23026332

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
List of illustrations
List of plates
Acknowledgements
1. An 'egalitarian' Iberian community?
2. Open fields and communal land
3. Social groups
4. Cooperative labour
5. Matrimony and patrimony
6. Minimal marriage
7. The fulcrum of inheritance
8. Conclusion
Appendix I: the landholding survey
Appendix II: social groups in 1851 and 1892
Appendix III: the Parish register
Appendix IV: household structure, 1977
Appendix V: baptisms of bastards, 1870-1978
Glossary of Portuguese terms
Bibliography
Index.