This essay represents an attempt at a re-examination of the Western scientific evidence for
the existence of the divergent 'Eastern European family pattern'. This evidence is challenged�…

Drawing on more than 20 years of anthropological and historical research in northern
Portugal, this article explores the temporal dimensions of womens and mens lives in rural�…

Previous scholarship has assumed global correlations between premarital service in
husbandry, marriage age, the extent to which marriage coincided with the attainment of�…

The article examines marriage behaviours, household patterns and household formation
rules prevailing among the population of the Upper Silesian parish of Bujakow during the�…

This chapter presents a group of scholars working on different periods and regions of the
Mediterranean to study the family from the earliest historical periods of the Mediterranean to�…

Purpose This paper aims to draw on a family business perspective to explore the historic
accounting records of an Italian liquorice juice business. The applicability of the three-circle�…

In this article, the authors argue that to develop public policies that will work in the interests
of diverse female consumers, it is imperative to recognize how sexism intersects with racism�…

This essay focuses on the complex interplay between choice and arrangement in marriage
processes that emerges from the life stories of 15 couples from diverse origins living in�…

This chapter examines how children in young adulthood and middle age are supported by
their elderly parents in two potentially critical situations of their attempts to construct a family�…

Analysis of long-run changes in the living arrangements and economic well-being of the
aged is limited by the lack of consistent data sources across time and space. Some�…