Common Ground
Edmund Leach, 19 September 1985
A Social History of Western Europe 1450-1720: Tensions and Solidarities among Rural People
by Sheldon Watts.
Hutchinson, 275 pp., £7.95, October 1984,0 09 156081 0 Show More
by Sheldon Watts.
Hutchinson, 275 pp., £7.95, October 1984,
Kinship in the Past: An Anthropology of European Family Life 1500-1900
by Andrejs Plakans.
Blackwell, 276 pp., £24.50, September 1984,0 631 13066 7 Show More
by Andrejs Plakans.
Blackwell, 276 pp., £24.50, September 1984,
Interests and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship
edited by Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean.
Cambridge, 417 pp., £35, June 1984,0 521 24969 4 Show More
edited by Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean.
Cambridge, 417 pp., £35, June 1984,
“... The books under review have all been influenced by the authors whom I have mentioned. Watts, Plakans, Medick and Sabean are all historians, but the Medick/Sabean volume is a symposium derived from an interdisciplinary seminar held in 1980. In this case five of the 15 contributors are anthropologists. Watts’s book is by far the most readable. He has ... ”
