Anthropology and Family History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5783136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David I Kertzer (0000-0001-9507-3154, Bowdoin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 201-216 |
| Publication date | 1984-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036319908400900302 |
| OpenAlex | W2127359557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 58 |
The growing interchange between family historians and sociocultural anthropologists is part of a broader movement linking anthropology and history, which is discussed in this article. Two traditions in anthropology-one symbolic and the other social organizational-have contributed in different ways to this in terdisciplinary development. The reasons for paying greater anthropological at tention to historical materials are discussed, as are the benefits to family historians of making more use of anthropology. Among the topics of mutual in terest considered are (a) the need for comparative research; (b) developing analytical tools for kinship study; (c) the relationship between norms and behavior; and (d) the relationship between structure and process
Applied anthropology · Historical anthropology · Kinship · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
Linking dispersal and marriage in humans
Historical Methods in Family Research
Las representaciones literarias de las dinámicas de clase en la vida familiar de los Angry Young Men
Darwinian Transitions
Family organization and the wage labor transition in a Tamang community of Nepal
Ruled by my friends’
Archives and Informants
Restructuring family production and reproduction on the Rocky Boy's Reservation, 1916–1934
An Action Like a Stratagem’ Courtship and Marriage from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
An Ethnohistorical Perspective on Cheyenne Demography
Anthropology and Family History
Observations On the Development of Kinship History, 1942-1985
Social change and the family
Anthropology, Family History, and the Concept of Strategy
Linking dispersal and resources in humans
The Microdemographic Community-Study Approach
Nutritional Consequences of Wealth Differentials in East African Pastoralists
Marriage and adoption in China, 1845-1945
The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Family and Household
French Kinship
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
Household and Family in Past Times
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
Production and Reproduction
Family structure in nineteenth century Lancashire.
Europe and the people without history
The developmental cycle in domestic groups
The Sanusi of Cyrenaica.
A History of Matrimonial Institutions
On the *** of Studying Household Form and Function
Household Composition in the Tonga Islands
The Past and the Present
Family and Kinship in Western Europe
Journal of Family History
Microdemographic variation and family composition in four thai villages
Issues in the Study of South Italian Society [and Comments and Replies]
Household Dynamics in a Nineteenth Century Swiss Village
Retirement, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Conflict in Preindustrial Japan
The Developmental Process of Domestic Groups
The South Italian Family
Identifying Kinfolk Beyond the Household
From Love To Institution
The Stem Family and the Developmental Cycle of the Peasant Household
The Family and the Modern World System
The History of the Family in Africa
French Historians and Early Modern Popular Culture
Statistical Studies of Historical Social Structure
An Anthropology of Religion and Magic, I
Past Achievements and Future Trends
The Harvey Lecture Series. Experimental History
Histoire et ethnologie
Household and Community in African Studies
People of the Mediterranean
French Kinship
The domestic cycle in India
On the Uses of History in Anthropology
Expression and Generalization in History and Anthropology1
Decision Models of Social Structure
Proscription of cross-cousin marriage among the southwestern Ojibwa1
Other Times, Other Customs
Transitions Over the Life Course
Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties
The Fate of the History of Mentalités in the Annales
History and Anthropology
Shaking off the Domestic Yoke, or the Sociological Significance of Residence
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2025 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |