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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451849003321

Autore

Todorova Marii͡a Nikolaeva

Titolo

Balkan family structure and the European pattern [[electronic resource] ] : demographic developments in Ottoman Bulgaria / / Maria N. Todorova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Central European University Press, 2006

ISBN

978-615-5053-86-3

978-6-15505-386-3

9786155053863

615-5053-86-3

1-281-26865-8

9786611268657

1-4237-7622-4

Edizione

[2nd updated, rev. and enl. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Pasts incorported: CEU studies in the humanities

Disciplina

304.6094977

Soggetti

Family demography - Bulgaria

Electronic books.

Bulgaria Population

Bulgaria Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.