- 276 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1993, this book deals with 3 universal but culturally variable phenomena: the family, women and death. The book poses questions about our own ways of looking at the family and private life, at sex and gender and at death, by analysing ancient Greek ideas and by showing how researchers' presuppositions have been influenced by their own culture and experience. The views of Fustel de Coulanges on the place of tomb-cult in the evolution of the family in the ancient world are critically examined and related to their 19th Century context; the study of the classical Athenian family is related to current historical and sociological debates on the separation between public and private life.
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Yes, you can access The Family, Women and Death by S.C. Humphreys in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Histoire & Sociologie du mariage et de la famille. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to the second edition
- Introduction to the first edition
- 1 Oikos and polis
- 2 Public and private interests in classical Athens
- 3 Women in antiquity
- 4 The family in classical Athens: search for a perspective
- 5 Family tombs and tomb-cult in classical Athens: tradition or traditionalism?
- 6 Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City
- 7 Death and time
- 8 Comparative perspectives on death
- Bibliography
- Index of inscriptions
- Index