Contributors Preface Introduction Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean Part I. Family and the Economy of Emotion: 1. Interest and emotion in family and kinship studies: a critique of social history and anthropology Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean 2. Putting kin and kinship to good use: the circulation of goods, labour, and names on Karpathos (Greece) Bernard Vernier Part II. Materna in Extremis: the Clash of Interests between Mother and Child: 3. Infanticide in rural Barvaria in the nineteenth century Regina Schulte 4. Possession and dispossession: maternity and mortality in Morocco Vanessa Maher Part III. Property in the Mediation of Family Relations: 5. 'Avoir sa part': sibling relations in partible inheritance Brittany Martine Segalen 6. Tensions, dissensions, and ruptures inside the family in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Haute Provence Alain Collomp 7. Young bees in an empty hive: relations between brother-in-law in a South German village around 1800 David Warren Sabean.
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Safley et al. (1986) studied this question.