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In-Laws and Outlaws - Kinship and Marriage in England (Hardcover)
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In-Laws and Outlaws - Kinship and Marriage in England (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Marriage
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Originally published in 1987, this book presented for the first
time a unified treatment of English kinship of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. This system, far from being a patchwork of
historical accidents, has a remarkably logical overall structure,
permeating both law and custom. To understand it one must study a
wide variety of sources ranging from Parliamentary debates through
accounts of contemporary events, cases and incidents to fiction of
the day. The work is pertinent to current studies in a number of
fields: in history it represents a systematic overview,
highlighting new sources of material, while for lawyers it gives a
historical context and explanation of 'family law', particularly
topical for impending English legislation in this area at the time.
It collects two centuries of sociological data, and presents social
anthropologists with the English system for comparison with systems
conventionally studied in the field and with kinship theory.
Finally, it provides philosophers with a new arena in which to
discuss the nature of explanations of human activities, besides
raising fresh questions.
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