The making of the modern Greek family : marriage and exchange in nineteenth-century Athens
- Title
- The making of the modern Greek family : marriage and exchange in nineteenth-century Athens / Paul Sant Cassia with Constantina Bada.
- Published by
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- xv, 282 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 77
- Uniform title
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 77.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Families > Greece > Athens > History > 19th century
- Marriage > Greece > Athens > History > 19th century
- Economic history
- Families
- Marriage
- Familie
- Bruidsgift
- Huwelijk
- Families > Greece, Modern > Athens > History > 19th century
- Famille > Grèce > Athènes (Grèce) > 19e siècle
- Mariage > Grèce > Athènes (Grèce) > 19e siècle
- Athens (Greece) > Economic conditions
- Greece > Athens
- Athènes (Grèce) > Conditions économiques
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: history, family and the 'other' in Greece -- Men and houses, women and households -- Marriage, women and land in nineteenth-century Athens -- Gifts and commodities, cash and trousseaux -- 'For one's soul': adoption, fosterage and the growth of koumbaria -- The family and emotional life -- Conclusion: exchange, marriage and the person -- Notes -- References -- Index.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-274) and index.