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Inheriting As People Think It Should Be - From Money To Mementos (Hardcover)
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Inheriting As People Think It Should Be - From Money To Mementos (Hardcover)
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What obligations to each other do people have or think they have?
That question comes up in relation to family and marriage
relationships, to law, and to moral reasoning. This novel and
highly readable book takes it up in relation to inheritances: to
what people think they should leave or be left, who should receive
what, when, how, and why. Making the book novel is its range. Here
are views about more than money. Covered are also houses, land and,
an often neglected but emotion-laden area, the personal and often
indivisible things that mean one is remembered as an individual.
Making it novel also is its emphasis throughout on meanings and on
what people see as matters of choice or flexibility. Even in
countries where the legal codes specify who should receive what
after death (many European and most Islamic codes allow far less
choice than British-based law does), people still have room for
decisions about what they give away to various heirs or spend
before death. What makes the book highly readable? One reason is
its timeliness. Currently lively, for example, are debates over
parents balancing their own needs and wishes against those of their
children ("spending the kids' inheritance," in one description).
Another is the book's style. The writing is straightforward. Theory
is not neglected but there is an absence of jargon. The material is
also mostly based on narratives: on people's own descriptions of
arrangements that "worked well" or "did not work well" and on why
they thought so. That base makes the book far from dry and far from
being an account only of negative feelings, objections, challenges,
and family rifts. It also makes it more relevant at times of
indecision or misunderstanding. In short, a book for many readers,
both within the social sciences and beyond it.
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