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The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 - Tapa blanda

Margaret L. Meriwether

 
9780292752245: The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840
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ISBN 10: 0292752245 ISBN 13: 9780292752245
Editorial: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas, 1999

Sinopsis

The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period. Meriwether recreates Aleppo family life over time from records kept by the Islamic religious courts that held jurisdiction over all matters of family law and property transactions. From this research, she asserts that the stereotype of the large, patriarchal patrilineal family rarely existed in reality. Instead, Aleppo’s notables organized their families in a great diversity of ways, despite the fact that they were all members of the same social class with widely shared cultural values, acting under the same system of family law. She concludes that this had important implications for gender relations and demonstrates that it gave women more authority and greater autonomy than is usually acknowledged.

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Margaret L. Meriwether is Professor of History at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she teaches courses on Islamic and Middle Eastern history.

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Editorial
Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0292752245
ISBN 13 
9780292752245
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
290
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