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The Bigouden region in south-west Brittany may appear to be
extremely 'traditional', but over the centuries it has witnessed
much social and economic change, with the introduction of
commercial fishing and a canning industry in the 1880s and, more
recently, the development of tourism and restructuring of
agriculture. Following a community of Breton peasants over fifteen
generations, Martine Segalen traces the effects of these economic
changes on family life and analyses the strategies of marriage
alliance and inheritance which were used to shore up social
hierarchies. She thus reveals the importance of kinship networks in
social intercourse, both today and in the past. The value of Dr
Segalen's study lies both in the cage material, which is of
interest for what it reveals about the social history of the French
peasantry and peasants in general, and, more particularly, in the
methodology she applies which combines anthropological, historical
and demographic approaches.
This collection of essays considers the current significance of
kinship in various Western European countries along with
manifestations of its cultural diversity. How do nations vary in
the value they attribute to the family in this wider sense? How do
the different generations communicate with one another? In what
ways have questions relating to the legacy of the past and to the
role of memory been rehabilitated, in order for the continuity of
the family to be assured? This book declines to accept predictions
made, on the basis of a common population projection, that European
family life will display a common pattern. Further, across a
comparison of a number of case studies, it points to a degree of
diversity in European family values as revealed when one looks
closely at the ways in which these values are transmitted.
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