"The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic infighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. This new study explores the intricate quarrels and violence within the ruling hellenistic families. A main theme is the …
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"The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic infighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. This new study explores the intricate quarrels and violence within the ruling hellenistic families. A main theme is the …
Research into social behaviour in animals has often focused on aggression, yet members of social species are far more likely to interact with each other in a positive way. Animal Friendships explores non-sexual bonding behaviours in a range of mammalian and avian species. Throug…
"While the period of transition from adolescence to adulthood has become a recent focus for developmental psychologists and child mental health practitioners, the full role of the family during this period is only beginning to be explored. Many compelling questions, of interest …
The period of transition from adolescence to adulthood has become a recent focus for developmental psychologists and child mental health practitioners, but the full role of the family during this period is only beginning to be explored. Many compelling questions, of interest to …
Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin exam…
No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic white families in contemporary America and seeks to provide an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race, and class oppression…
No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic white families in contemporary America and seeks to provide an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race, and class oppression…
Ruth Perry describes the eighteenth-century transformation of the English family as a function of major social changes. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Austen, Richardson, Burney, and many others. This important s…
"The realignment of the Chinese social order that took place over the course of the Sung dynasty set the pattern for Chinese society throughout most of the later imperial era. Using data on two groups of Sung elites - the grand councilors who led the bureaucracy, and locally pro…
