{"product_id":"social-inequality-in-a-portuguese-hamlet-land-late-marriage-and-bastardy-1870-1978-paperback-9780521040426","title":"Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet; Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870–1978 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521040426","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSocial Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLand, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870–1978\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBased both on extensive fieldwork and detailed study of local records, O'Neill offers a different perspective to the traditional image of northern Iberian mountain settlements.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian Juan O'Neill (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521040426, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 November 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e452 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.675 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe traditional image of northern Iberian mountain settlements is that they are largely egalitarian, homogeneous, and survivals of archaic forms of 'agrarian collectivism'. In this book, based both on extensive fieldwork and detailed study of local records, Brian Juan O'Neill offers a different perspective, questioning prevailing views on both empirical as well as theoretical and methodological grounds. Through a detailed examination of three major areas of social life - land tenure, cooperative labour exchanges, and marriage and inheritance practices - in one particular hamlet, the author demonstrates the predominance of forms of institutionalized economic inequality and social differentiation within the peasantry. Situating the local study within a wider European and Mediterranean ethnographic and geographical framework, O'Neill offers a refreshing and challenging way of combining the research methods of anthropology with those of social and economic history. His book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, sociologists, geographers and demographers interested in the present and past social structure of European village communities, as well as to those concerned with the growing links between anthropology and history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e List of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of plates\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. An 'egalitarian' Iberian community?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Open fields and communal land\u003cbr\u003e 3. Social groups\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cooperative labour\u003cbr\u003e 5. Matrimony and patrimony\u003cbr\u003e 6. Minimal marriage\u003cbr\u003e 7. The fulcrum of inheritance\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I: the landholding survey\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II: social groups in 1851 and 1892\u003cbr\u003e Appendix III: the Parish register\u003cbr\u003e Appendix IV: household structure, 1977\u003cbr\u003e Appendix V: baptisms of bastards, 1870–1978\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Portuguese terms\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006254207256,"sku":"9780521040426","price":52.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521040426i_f929dba3-1844-4eb8-b498-717f460bde15.jpg?v=1694968572","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/social-inequality-in-a-portuguese-hamlet-land-late-marriage-and-bastardy-1870-1978-paperback-9780521040426","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}