TY  - GEN
T1  - Balkan family structure and the European pattern : demographic developments in Ottoman Bulgaria
T2  - Pasts incorporated ;
A1  - Todorova, Marii͡a Nikolaeva
LA  - English
PP  - Budapest ; New York
PB  - Central European University Press
YR  - 2006
ED  - Second, updated, revised and enlarged edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm70078439
AB  - This study, which is an updated, extended, and revised version of the out-of-print 1993 edition, reassesses the traditional stereotype of the place of the Balkans in the model of the European family in the nineteenth century on the basis of new source material and by synthesizing existing research. The work first analyzes family structure and demographic variables as they appear in population registers and other sources, and the impact of these findings on theoretical syntheses of the European family pattern. On most features, such as population structure, marriage and nuptiality, birth and fertility, death and mortality rates, family and household size and structure, as well as inheritance patterns, the Balkans show an enormous deal of internal variety. This variability is put in a comparative European context by matching the quantifiable results with comparable figures and patterns in other parts of Europe. The second section of the book is a contribution to the long-standing debate over the zadruga, the complex, collective, joint or extended family in the Balkans. Finally, the book considers ideology and mythology and the ways it has adversely affected scholarship on the family, and broadly on population history.
OP  - 249
CN  - HB3627 .T634 2006eb
SN  - 1423776224
SN  - 9781423776222
SN  - 9786155053863
SN  - 6155053863
SN  - 1281268658
SN  - 9781281268655
SN  - 9637326456
SN  - 9789637326455
KW  - Bulgaria : Population.
KW  - Family demography : Bulgaria.
KW  - Bulgaria : Social life and customs.
KW  - Démographie de la famille : Bulgarie.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Demography.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Eastern.
KW  - Family demography
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Population
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - 19th century, Demography, Family life, Ottoman Empire, Population, Social life and customs.
ER  -