From Duty to Desire - Remaking Families in a Spanish Village

Name: From Duty to Desire - Remaking Families in a Spanish Village
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ISBN: 9780691016641

ISBN-10: 069101664X

ISBN-13: 9780691016641

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jane Fishburne Collier

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In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a "modern subjectivity" among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of meeting social obligations, the people she interviewed more recently emphasized the need to think for oneself: status concerns in choosing a spouse had apparently been replaced by romantic love, patriarchal authority by partnership marriages, parental demands for obedience by hopes of earning children's affection, mourners' respect for the dead by…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Social Inequality: From Inherited Property to Occupational Achievement



Courtship: From Honor to Romantic Love



Marriage: From Co-owners to Coworkers



Children: From Heirs to Parental Projects



Mourning: From Respect to Grief



Identity: From Villagers to Andalusians


Notes


References Cited


Index