Kinship in Europe J HarriesSince the publication of Philippe Ariss book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the family to implicit notions of modernization, with the rise of the nuclear family in the West as part of its economic and political success. During the past decade, however, that synthesis has begun to break down.
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Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions
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Egyptian cooking has been best practiced and enjoyed at home
crafted as poetic reflections of the contradictory worlds that they inhabit
Children’s picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators
Contamination of heavy metals above threshold values can destroy the soil’s natural ability to perform ecosystem services
it shocked and scandalized the public of its day with art forms
the famed characters Bertie and Jeeves are introduced
at the same time touching on gender issues—the status of women in Middle Eastern societies and the varying constructions of male-female relationships—and the vexed question of "originality" in the narratives of the monotheistic traditions
This chapter describes the diversification of sugarcane production systems into multiple energy and non-energy products
but this imbalance conditions social dynamism and a distinctive mode of cohesion
