1st Edition
Changing Families An Ethnographic Approach to Divorce and Separation
By Bob Simpson
Copyright 1998
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Recent decades have seen spectacular increases in the levels of divorce and separation across the Western world. This important development is having a radical impact on the conduct and nature of family relationships. This book offers an original investigation of these critical transformations through an ethnographic analysis of post-divorce family life in Britain and provides insightful answers... Read more
Preface: Divorcing in the Late 1980s 1 Divorce: Towards an Anthropology of Endings 2 Plotting the Contours of the 'Unclear' Family 3 Disputing Persons: Constructions of Childhood after Divorce 4 The Fractured Triangle: Disputes after Divorce 5 On Gifts, Payments and Kinship after Divorce 6 Dialogues of the Divorced 7 Divorce, Kinship and the History of the Western Family
Biography
Bob Simpson Senior Lecturer in Anthropology,University of Durham
