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Title: Patriarchy and Familism in Time and Space: the comparative study of co-residence across Eurasia
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: I came to Halle in 2013 from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock on the premise that my pursuit of the comparative historical regional demography of Europe and beyond would enrich the department’s major agenda of exploring Eurasian unity and variation. One of two crucial assets that I brought with me was my in statu nascendi Habilitation monograph. The project was started in Rostock, but it was completed, formally defended with a veniam legendi and, finally, published in 2015 during my stay in Halle. “Rethinking East Central Europe: Family Systems and Co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth” (Szołtysek 2015a)1 reexamines, with the help of a substantial database, the way in which the family-research pioneers formulated European regional pattern differences, how they and later scholars used the proposed regionalization models, and how the initial formulations now appear in light of this project’s findings from household listings and other archival population sources from eighteenth century Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. The gravamen of this massive project was that, at the turn of the nineteenth century, there was no such single territory as ‘‘eastern Europe”. The general view of the European continent that was being consolidated as empirical research on European families unfolded during the 1970s was already on the wrong track with paradigms that used terms such as “dual Europe,” employed the “dividing line” metaphor, and speculated about the existence of an “undifferentiated Slavic eastern Europe”.
Url: https://www.eth.mpg.de/4724990/Patriarchy_final-report.pdf
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Authors: Szołtysek, Mikołaj
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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Countries: United States