The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of de...

The word "e;blood"e; awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical repre...

The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long befor...

Since the publication of Philippe Ariès’s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early ...

While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and tra...

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approac...

The notion of ‘selfhood’ conjures up images of self-sufficiency, integrity, introspec...

This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep r...

The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of t...

The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, bu...

'The study of kinship remains a lively concern among historians, sociologists, and anthropologist...

'On the whole, the general arguments made here for the continued importance of kinship in moderni...