Distinct Inheritances: Property, Family and Community in a Changing EuropeQuestions about the respective roles of private and state property have been at the center of European political life for the past century. Much less attention has been given to the ways in which rights to property have been transmitted over time and how different inheritance traditions have affected European societies. The chapters in this volume draw on historical and anthropological research to show how inheritance practices connect the intimate organization of domestic life with questions of economic development, political structure, and religious belief. The book traces the history of inheritance from the coming of Christianity, through the imposition and dissolution of different forms of feudalism, to the development of the modern economy. Several chapters address the impact of communism and its collapse, and demonstrate how ideas about the inheritance of property and status are continuing to shape, and be shaped by, economic and social changes in a continent that is moving beyond the ideological dichotomies of the Cold War. Hannes Grandits teaches European history at University of Graz, Austria. Patrick Heady teaches anthropology at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany. |
Contents
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The Longue Duree | 31 |
European Kinship Systems and Household Structures Medieval Origins | 35 |
Power and Inheritance Male Domination Property and Family in Eastern Europe 15001900 | 53 |
Intrinsic Growth Rates and Inheritance Strategies A Perspective from Historical Demography | 69 |
What Creates Village Democracy in Europe A Comparative Study | 97 |
Devolution of Property in Southwest Germany around 1800 | 115 |
Toward Predominating Primogeniture Changes in Inheritance Practices in InnichenSan Candido 1730 to 1930 | 125 |
Bereft of Property Change and Continuity in Family Organization in Härjedalen Sweden 1850 to 1930 | 245 |
The Last Become First The Rise of Ultimogeniture In Contemporary South Tyrol | 263 |
In and Out of Socialism | 275 |
Reproducing the House Kinship Inheritance and Property Relations in Highland Poland | 279 |
Kinship and Economy in the Russian Countryside A Provisional Model | 297 |
Family Farms Community and the Decline of the Former Kolkhozy in Russia | 313 |
Are the kuláks back? Inherited Capital and Social Continuity in Mesterszállás Hungary | 329 |
Heritage and Inheritance in Small Business Families of Postsocialist East Germany A Case Study from Leipzigs Southern Region | 347 |
Invisible Patrimonies Capitoli Matrimoniali in Ancien Régime Ascoli | 145 |
The Great Transformation to Modernity | 159 |
Household Inheritance and Kinship in Eastern European PostSerfdom Societies | 165 |
Descent or Territonality Inheritance and Family Forms in the late Ottoman and early postOttoman Balkans | 181 |
Inheritance and Social Change in the Decades of Emancipation in the Late Habsburg Empire Some General Trends | 207 |
The Validation of Power in the Transition from Feudalism to Socialism The Case of Vágkirályfa Southern Slovakia 17691959 | 229 |
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