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Balkan family structure and the European pattern : demographic developments in Ottoman Bulgaria /
This study, which is an updated, extended, and revised version of the out-of-print 1993 edition, reassesses the traditional stereotype of the place of the Balkans in the model of the European family in the nineteenth century on the basis of new source material and by synthesizing existing research....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | Second, updated, revised and enlarged edition. |
| Colección: | Pasts incorporated ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : rethinking the unknown
- Population structure
- Age structure
- Sex structure
- Marriage and nuptiality
- The marriage ritual and seasonal patterns of marriage
- Age at marriage
- Remarriage, cross-kin marriages and other characteristics
- Birth and fertility
- Births, baptisms and their registration
- Measurements of fertility
- Twins in a closed population
- Death and mortality
- Gender and age specific mortality
- Seasonal patterns of mortality and causes of death
- Family and household size and structure
- Family and household structure
- Family and household size
- Inheritance patterns
- The problem of the South Slav zadruga
- Distribution and development of the zadruga in the Balkans
- An alternative explanation
- Conclusion : a hypothesis of converging theories
- A summary of conclusions
- Appendices
- The sources
- The liber status animarum of the village of Seldzhikovo
- Ideographs of the liber status animarum
- Note on the plague
- A marriage contract
- On the epistemological value of family models : the Balkans within the European pattern.