Households and kinship networks: The costs and benefits of contextualization

Continuity and Change

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-76

  Plakans, Andrejs ^a   Wetherell, Charles ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY STRUCTURE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; KINSHIP; SOCIAL HISTORY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0141837100     PISSN: 02684160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0268416003004454     Document Type: Article

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