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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818953303321

Titolo

Kinship, community, and self : essays in honor of David Warren Sabean / / edited by Jason Coy [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-420-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; ; Volume 9

Disciplina

306.83

Soggetti

Kinship - Europe - History

Kinship - History

Families - Europe - History

Families - History

Community life - Europe - History

Europe Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction. Sabean's Swabians; Chapter 1. ""As a Brother Should Be""; Chapter 2. Legal Pitfalls of Marriage Brokerage; Chapter 3. ""Married to the Bottle""; Chapter 4. A Home for Mothers in Vienna; Chapter 5. Of Queens and Kinship; Chapter 6. Making of a Japanese Rural Christian Community; Chapter 7. Divination and Community; Chapter 8. Paracelsus; Chapter 9. From Heretics to Hypocrites; Chapter 10. Finding Orthodoxy in the Baltic; Chapter 11. Women, Railways, and Respectability; Chapter 12. Adventures in Terrorism; Chapter 13. Power in Truth Telling

Chapter 14. For the Love of GeometryChapter 15. A Private Repulsion toward Public Women; Chapter 16. Honor and the Policing of Intra-Jewish Disputes; Chapter 17. You Are What You Reform?; Conclusion; David Warren Sabean's Published Works; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history through



his supervision of dozens of graduate students and his influence on countless other scholars. This book collects wide-ranging essays demonstrating the impact of Sabean's work has on scholars of diverse time periods and regions, all revolving around the prominent issues that have framed his career: kinship, community, and self. The significance of David Warren Sabean's scholarship is reflec