The making of the modern Greek family : marriage and exchange in nineteenth-century Athens / [print]
Paul Sant Cassia with Constantina Bada.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)1992.
- xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 77 .
List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction: history, family and the 'other' in Greece Men and houses, women and households Marriage, women and land in nineteenth-century Athens Gifts and commodities, cash and trousseaux ; 'For one's soul': adoption, fosterage and the growth of koumbaria The family and emotional life Conclusion: exchange, marriage and the person Notes References Index.