Preliminary Programme

Showing: Family and Demography (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
E-1 ELI14 Mobilities, integration and formalisation of social relationships in the urban context
Cave E
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Family and Demography Chair: Kari-Matti Piilahti
Organizer: Vincent Gourdon Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Guido Alfani : Immigrants and formalisation of social ties in Ivrea. XVIth-XVIIth Centuries
Etienne Couriol : How urban newcomers use spiritual kinships : Lyons in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries
Antonio Irigoyen : Clergy as migrant receiver in Early Modern Spain
Stéphane Minvielle : Formalisation of social relationships in urban context : The integration of migrants in 18th century Bordeaux


N-1 FAM0I Construction of Blood I: Kinship Discourses from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Part 1: Cultural Methaphors of Incorporation
Room 6.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Simon Teuscher
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Gérard Delille
Anita Guerreau-Jalabert : Flesh and Incorporation in Medieval Texts
Max S. Hering Torres : "Purity of Blood" in Early Modern Spain
Bernhard Jussen : Considerations on the semantics of sanguis and consanguinitas in the Middle Ages
David Warren Sabean : Theological and literary discourses of blood in Baroque Culture



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
Q-2 FAIII FAMIII: Widowhood and Remarriage
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Margarida Durães
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: John A. Dickinson
Johanna Andersson Raeder : Widowhood and remarriage amongst the swedish nobility during the Middle Ages
Béatrice Craig : From Custumals to Code Napoléon: Impact of legal changes on women's access to and control of property
Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux : Well-Being and widows in early-modern France
Aoi Okada, Satomi Kurosu & Miyuki Takahashi : Widowhood and Remarriage in Northeastern Japan: Rural-Urban Comparison 1716-1870


T-2 FAMII Construction of Blood II : Genealogies, Rules of Succession and Representations of Rules of Heredity
Room 9
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Christopher H. Johnson
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Francesca Trivellato
Bernard Derouet : Blood in Law and Jurisprudence in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century France
Michaela Hohkamp : “Consanguinitas as a concept of power in early modern European historiography”.
Simon Teuscher : Flesh and Blood in Medieval Treatises on the 'Arbor Consanguinitatis'
John Waller : Ideologies of Bloodlines from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
R-3 FAM25 Construction of Blood III: From Lineage to Race, 1650-1900
Amphitheater 4
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Michaela Hohkamp
Organizers: - Discussant: Jon Mathieu
Christopher H. Johnson : Class Dimensions of Blood and Kinship in Brittany, 1780-1880
Margareth Lanzinger : The “Bonds of Blood”: Kin marriages and blood discourse in the 19th century
Edith Saurer : Eugenic ideas of kinship and blood-Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
E-4 FAM26 Construction of Blood IV: Biological Discourses, Kin and Selfhood in the Long Twentieth Century
Cave E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Bernhard Jussen
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: David Warren Sabean
Caroline Arni : A Substance of Kinship or its Representation? Blood at the Intersection of Embryology and Anthropological Discourses on Kinship in Modernity
Sarah Franklin : "From Blood to Genes?: Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of Geneticisation”
Adam Kuper : “Darwin’s marriage, theories of heredity, and the origins of eugenics”
Enric Porqueres : Exceptional Persons? New Reproductive Technologies and the Relationality of the Self


H-4 FAM03 The Borderline between Life and Death I: Neonatal Deaths
Room 1.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Anne Løkke
Organizers: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Eilidh Garrett, Anne Løkke Discussant: Anne Løkke
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Raquel Pollero & Wanda Cabella : Neonatal Mortality in Early 20th Century Uruguay: Old (World) Wine in New (World) Bottles?
Renzo Derosas : Neonatal Mortality in Nineteenth-Century North-eastern Italy: Trends, Patterns, Factors.
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Loftur Guttormsson : Neonatal tetanus in two island communities in the North Atlantic. Vestmannaeyjar and Grímsey (Iceland) during eighteenth and nineteenth century
Eilidh Garrett : The timing of death in the first month of life: a comparative study of rural communities in nineteenth century Scotland
Tricia James : Neonatal Mortality in Rushden, Northamptonshire: 1879 - 1909
Alice Reid : From debility to atelectasis: doctors and causes of neonatal death in Nineteenth Century Scotland


P-4 FAM02 Demography of Solitary Households
Room 8.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Alice B. Kasakoff
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussant: Brian Gratton
Stella António : Demography of Portuguese Solitary Households
Jim Brown : Solitary Households in 19th Century Austria
Danielle Gauvreau, Sherry Olson : An unusual residential pattern: solitary households in Montreal 1881-1901
Kiyoshi Hamano, Mary Louise Nagata : Solitary households and urban demography in a stem family society: Kyoto, 1843-1868
Steven Ruggles : Living Arrangements of the Aged in Comparative Historical Perspective



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
H-5 FAM09 Rowntree Revisited: Poverty, welfare and the life-cycle
Room 1.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Organizer: Elisabeth Engberg Discussant: Elisabeth Engberg
Maria Bergman : Strike workers and their families
Sally Bould : The Fourth Age: The New Risk of Poverty
Jeremy Boulton, Leonard Schwarz : Rowntree Revisited: Poverty, Welfare and the Life-cycle in London, 1725-1824
Anna Lundberg : When mother nature fails us - famine, family and mortality among settlers in two agrarian parishes in Sweden during the nineteenth century.


K-5 FAM04 The Borderline between Life and Death II: Neonatal and Perinatal Deaths
Room 4
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Eilidh Garrett
Organizers: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Eilidh Garrett, Anne Løkke Discussants: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Signild Vallgårda
Fabrice Cahen : "Dépopulation", mortality and abortion in the French "belle époque".
Gayle Davis : Stillbirth Registration and Perceptions of Infant Death in Britain, c.1854-1960
Anne Løkke : Still birth registration in Denmark 1800-1900 - concepts and effects.
Diego Ramiro-Fariñas : Foetal mortality and mortality during childhood in Spain, 1890 till 2004.
Robert Woods, Frans Van Poppel : The clustering of fetal deaths: evidence from Zeeland, The Netherlands in the nineteenth century



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
C-6 HIS03 Making large complex databases easy to use
Cave C
Networks: Family and Demography , Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Lisa Dillon
Michelle Hamilton, Kris Inwood : Prospects for a Public Use Sample of Aboriginal Communities
Kees Mandemakers : Structuring and Distributing Longitudinal Historical Data for Comparative Analysis
Hans Jørgen Marker : Counting Danes


E-6 FAM10 Individual Experiences of Vulnerability
Cave E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Elisabeth Engberg
Organizer: Elisabeth Engberg Discussant: Andrew Blaikie
Loftur Guttormsson, Ólöf Garðarsdóttir : Poor, paupers and vagrants in the light of the Icelandic census of 1703
Satomi Kurosu, NorikoTsuya : Household Socioeconomic Status and Individual Vulnerability in Early Modern Japan: Mortality at Different Stages of Life in Three Northeastern Villages
Leonard Schwarz : Reconstructing the lives of the London poor, 1725-1824
Samantha Shave : A Policy for the Vulnerable? Experiences of and negotiations for Relief in Gilbert's Unions, 1782- C.1845.


Q-6 FAM12 The Impact of the 'Industrious Revolution' on the Family
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ida Bull
Organizer: Ida Bull Discussant: Béatrice Craig
Tovah Bender : Creating Unions: Social Networks and Artisan Marriages in fifteenth-century Florentine Notarial Records
Ragnhild Hutchison : Tile and brick production – early modern industry in Norway in a household perspective
Gloria L. Main : The Employments of Children in the Earliest Phases of Industrialization in Rural New England, 1740-1840
Teresa Pinto : Industrial schools and the gender division of labour in Portugal in the late 19th century



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
H-7 ETH34 Marriage and Migration
Room 1.1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Family and Demography Chair: Leen Sterckx
Organizers: - Discussant: Leen Sterckx
Beate Collet, Emmanuelle Santelli : Marital Choices of African and Turkish Migration Descent in France
Elena Dingu-Kyrklund : Globalization in practice: marriage - a commonest migration cause in the 21st century?
Marc Tremblay, Louis Houde & Hélène Vézina : Tracing back maternal and paternal lineages in the Quebec (Canada) population


L-7 FAM15 Unnatural Kinship: Familiarity outside of family, XVth-XIXth centuries I
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Guido Alfani Discussant: Vincent Gourdon
Michela Barbot : Owner, Employer, Patron and Godfather. The Case of the Fabbrica del Duomo in Milan during the Ancien Régime
Tom Ericsson : Who wants to be a godparent? Baptisms in a Lutheran church in Paris, 1750-1810
Cosme Gómez, Francisco Garcia Gonzales : Fictive Kinship and social relations. Family strategies in the mddle-class and oligarchy (Albacete, 1750-1840)
Cristina Munno, Guido Alfani : Godparenthood and social networks in Nonantola XVIth-XVIIth Centuries


U-7 FAM05 Childlessness, Impotence and Infertility in the European Past
Room10.2
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Peter Sköld
Organizer: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Christina Benninghaus : Diagnosing Male Infertility in 19th century Germany
Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi & Alessio Fornasin : The other side of the medal. Childless women in mid-nineteenth century Tuscany



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
L-8 FAM18 Migration and Inequality within Families: Multigenerational Perspectives
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Anders Brändström
Organizer: Alice B. Kasakoff Discussant: Michel Oris
Nanna Floor Clausen, Hans Jørgen Marker : Were the elderly a burden a 1801?
Alice B. Kasakoff : Family Care of the Elderly in the US North 1850 – 1870: Boon or Burden?
Jan Kok, Hilde Bras : Diverging pathways? Sibling differences in social mobility in a commercializing rural region of the Netherlands, 1860-1940


O-8 FAM01 Poverty as an Impediment to Marriage?
Room 7.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussants: -
Christer Lundh, Martin Dribe : Partner Selection and Marriage Market Segmentation in 19th Century Sweden
Satoshi Murayama : Poor households in a proto-industrial region in Germany from the 17th to the 19th century.
Peter Teibenbacher : Nuptiality and Fertility restrictions in agrarian societies. The case of Styria 17th to 19th century
Paulo Teodoro de Matos : Marriage of Poor Couples in the Azores Islands, Portugal



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
E-9 FAM19 Did Peasants Die in their own Beds? Rural Migration in the 17th-19th centuries
Cave E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Josef Grulich : Rural Migration in Bohemia (18th-19th Centuries)
Hiroshi Kawaguchi : Where did the peasants die in the suburbs of Edo, Japan in the 18th -19th centuries?
Christopher Kennedy : An Gorta Mor and peasant survival: an examination of famine deaths and emigration in Ireland, 1846-56
Philippe Pérot : Spanish sailors and ship’s boys of rural extraction dying in the New Vera Cruz through the XVIIth century : social outlines and family links in the Bienes de Difuntos archives
Mikako Sawayama : Where did the peasants abandon their children during the first half of the 19th century in western Japan?


F-9 FAM21 Heat Waves (from 1911 to 2003)
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Robert Woods
Organizer: Catherine Rollet Discussant: Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant
Lucia Pozzi, Paolo Cau & Carla Merella : A reversal of trend in the Italian health transition largely ignored
Catherine Rollet : The Heat Wave of 1911. demographic realities and political reactions
Frans van Poppel : The development of temperature-related mortality in the Netherlands
Jörg Vögele : "Has all that has been done lately for infants failed" 1911, Infant Mortality and Infant Welfare in Early Twentieth Century Germany



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
R-10 NMFAM Network meeting: Family and Demography
Amphitheater 4
Network: Family and Demography Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
B-11 FAM06 Marriage Contracts I: a quantitative approach to family strategies and inheritance systems
Cave B
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Joseph Goy
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Fabrice Boudjaaba : Dowry System in Normandy: a mean of to protect interests of male lineage? A comparison between two regions (Vernon and Pont-l’Evêque, 1750-1830)
Rosa Congost : Dowries regime, social groups and economic development in Catalonia (XVIII-XIX)
Anne-Lise Head : Transmission without marriage contract
Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : Marriage Contracts in Romanian Society (18th and 19th centuries)


F-11 FAM22 Models of Illegitimacy in Comparative Perspective
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: John A. Dickinson
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios, Begoña Villuendas & Carlos Martin Diaz : Bastards and Foundlings: Child Abandonment and Illegitimacy in Madrid during the early 20th century
Ira Spieker : Conflict – Agreement – Affection. Concepts and Evaluations of Emotions in Ancient Rural Societies.



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
E-12 FAM23 Intergenerational Aspects of Fertility and Marriage
Cave E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Elisabeth Engberg
Organizer: Sören Edvinsson Discussant: George Alter
Anders Brändström, Göran Broström, Sören Edvinsson, Marie Lindkvist , John Rogers : Fertility across generations. Exploring intergenerational effects of family size, birth intervals and infant mortality
Marco Breschi, Stanislao Mazzoni & Lucia Pozzi : Reproductive behaviours in the Sardinian families in the 19th and 20th centuries:
Lisa Dillon : Family Influences on Marriage Patterns, 17th & 18th century Québec
Leen Sterckx : Partner choice of Turkish and Moroccan immigrant youth in the Netherlands
Jan Van Bavel, Jan Kok : Analyzing intergenerational transmission of fertility with mixed effects models. Rural Holland 1850-1940


X-12 FAM36 Unnatural Kinship II
Room 2.13
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Guido Alfani Discussant: David Warren Sabean
Vincent Gourdon : Spiritual kinship in nineteenth-century Paris
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb : Kinship and Ritual Kinship in the Alps (18th-19th centuries).
Ivan Jablonka : Unnatural Kinship in France: Love and Familiarity in French Foster Homes (1870s-1930s)



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
L-13 FAM24 Intergenerational aspects of mortality
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Anders Brändström
Organizer: Sören Edvinsson Discussant: Sören Edvinsson
Bertrand Desjardins, Marilyn Gentil : Intergenerational aspects of the Demography of French Canadians
Jonas Liliequist, Åsa Bergenheim : Honour thy Father and thy Mother. Notions and practices of abuse and violence to parents in Sweden 1600-2000
Alberto Sanz-Gimeno, David Reher : Intergenerational aspects of childhood mortality in Spain
Ken Smith, Geraldine P. Mineau : Paternal Age and Maternal Age and their Effects on Adult Offspring Mortality



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
K-14 FAM31 Divorce, Women and Families in the Balkans
Room 4
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mikolaj Szoltysek
Organizer: Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Mimoza Dushi : Women and Family in Albanin Society According to Moral Codes, 15th – 20th Centuries
Vera Gudac Dodic : Divorce,Women and Families in Serbia in the second half of 20th century
Petko Hristov : Whether the “Balkan Family Pattern” Exists as a Model or it is an Ideological Construct?
Elena Ignovska : Women and Families in the Balkans, 17th-20th centuries



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
F-15 FAM08 Kin marriages as strategies for social production
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Bernard Derouet
Organizer: Bernard Derouet Discussant: Bernard Derouet
Hilde Bras, Frans van Poppel & Kees Mandemakers : Kin Marriage in the Netherlands: Trends and Determinants in the Nineteenth Century
Gérard Delille : The new features of matrimonial exchange in 18th and 19th centuries
Emília Lagido : Consanguineous marriages in the 19th century. An comparative analisis


I-15 ELI15 Elites strategies in Europe and across the seas
Room 2.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Family and Demography Chair: Anu Lahtinen
Organizer: Vincent Gourdon Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Erica Bastress-Dukehart : Imprisoned, Empowered, Engendered: The Dialectic of Sibling Relationships within Early Modern Germany’s Princely Dynasties
Nuno Camarinhas : Serving abroad: foreign origin magistrates in early modern Portugal
Annick Foucrier-Binda : Marriage networks among French migrants in San Francisco at the time of the Gold Rush
Christian Kühner : Friendship in the Early Modern French Nobility
Xabier Lamikiz : Merchant Guilds and Merchant Networks in Eighteenth-Century Spain: A Comparison between Cadiz and Bilbao


J-15 FAM27 Demography of Indigenous Populations
Room 3.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Göran Broström
Organizer: Peter Sköld Discussant: Per Axelsson
Mario Boleda : Demographic Dynamics in Aboriginal Populations.
Gabriella Edholm : Marriage patterns among Sami nomads and Swedish settlers under the impact of the colonization process in 19th century northern Sweden.
J. David Hacker, Michael R. Haines : American Indian Demography at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Peter Sköld : Ageing in the north. The Sami life expectancy.


O-15 FAM28 The Survival Strategies of Widows
Room 7.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Organizer: Beatrice Moring Discussant: Sølvi Sogner
Beatrice Moring : Widows and their children, survival strategies and public assistance
Glenda Strachan, Lindy Henderson : Surviving widowhood: Life alone in rural New South Wales, Australia, in the second half of the nineteenth century
Richard Wall : Widows, family and poor relief in 18th and 19th century England



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
H-16 FAM33 Medical and Demographic Knowledge: quantifying and classifying death I: 17th-19th centuries
Room 1.1
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Christine Théré
Organizer: Jean-Marc Rohrbasser Discussant: Jean-Marc Rohrbasser
Maria João Guardado Moreira, Teresa Rodrigues : The Mortality Pattern in Portugal
Kent Johansson : Sex-Specific Mortality in Pre-Industrial Europe: Child Mortality in Scania, Sweden 1766-1894
Marie Lindkvist, Göran Broström : Interaction between fertility and infant mortality in an intergenerational perspective


L-16 FAM29 The use of genealogies for demographic research
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Arthur Wolf
Organizer: Harriet Zurndorfer Discussant: Arthur Wolf
Santiago Piquero : Studying Adult Mortality in Spanish Nobility,16th-19th C.
Yuki Umeno : What Chinese genealogies tell and what they do not: an attempt of demographics of domestic immigration
Harriet Zurndorfer : Genealogy as a Source for Measuring Nuptiality, Fertility, and Mortality in Late Imperial China: Evidence from the Fan Lineage of Huizhou 1500-1600



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
A-17 FAM32 Family and Marriage in 20th century Eastern Europe
Cave A
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Tamas Faragó
Organizer: Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu Discussant: Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu
Alena Eskridge-Kosmach : Sex and Marriage in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: comparative analysis
Vasilis Gavalas : Greek marriage patterns in perspective: family formation in mainland and insular Greece during the 20th century.
Dalia Leinarte : Informal Family Benefits in Soviet Lithuania, 1950s-1980s


H-17 HEA10 Medical and Demographic Knowledge: quantifying and classifying death II: 19th and 20th centuries
Room 1.1
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Kent Johansson
Organizers: - Discussant: Kent Johansson
Agnieszka Fihel : Excess male mortality as an inherent component of modernization
Andrew Hinde, Martin Gorsky, Bernard Harris & Aravinda Guntupali : The rise in morbidity in England, 1850-1950
Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant : Maternal mortality in the Belgian vital registration and in the maternity wards in nineteenth century Belgium


L-17 FAM17 Emigration, Female Marriage and Social Mobility
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Discussant: Anne-Lise Head
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga : Female emigration, marriage, and social mobility in the Pyrenees in the nineteenth century
Rolande Bonnain-Dulon : Marriage settlements and migrant juniors daughters in the Pyrénées, 19th century
Ofelia Rey Castelao : Emigration, female marriage and social mobility in Northwest Spain, 18th-19th
Yukari Takai : Married, Female and on the Move: Japanese Migrant Women to North America in the Early Twentieth Century


X-17 FAMIV Marriages Contracts II : Inheritance systems
Room 2.13
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Joseph Goy
Organizer: Joseph Goy Discussant: Joseph Goy
Gérard Béaur : Marriage contracts in egalitarian inheritance system: the case of Chartres (18th century
Llorenç Ferrer Alos : The adaptation of the marriage contracts to the economic changes in Catalonia (C. XVII-XIX).
Jonathan Spangler : Marriage contracts as an indicator of épée-robe (non?) integration in seventeenth-century France



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
I-18 FAM20 Fertilitiy Transition: Negotiating strategies between men and women
Room 2.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Michel Oris
Organizers: - Discussant: Michel Oris
Elitsa Dimitrova : The First Demographic Transition in Bulgaria. A Paradigm Shift?
Rada Drezgic : “My husband looks after me” – Reproductive Decisions, Contraceptive Practices and Gender Hierarchy
Patricia Thornton : The role of marriage and “starting behaviour” in the New World fertility transition: The case of Montreal 1881-1901.


Q-18 FAM30 Denomination of Foundlings
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Catherine Rollet
Organizer: Guy Brunet Discussant: Catherine Rollet
Guy Brunet : The denomination of foundlings in France, XVIII°-XX° siècles
Stanislao Mazzoni : The surnames of foundlings of “Ospedale degli Esposti di Parma”, Italy.
Julie Miller : The Fate of William Unknown: Naming Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen : Erasing and Creating Identities: Naming Practices at the Nineteenth Century London Foundling Hospital


V-18 FAM34 Transitional Zones and Hybrid Family Systems: New Perspectives on the Geography of Family Forms in Historic Eurasia
Room 2.10
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Richard Wall
Siegfried Gruber : "Does Albania fit into an overall pattern of household and marriage?"
Viachaslau Nasevich : Balanced household formation pattern in the behaviour of Belarusian peasants
Richard Paping : The dynamics of household structures in the Dutch countryside from the 17th to the 20th century: The importance of stem families?
Mikolaj Szoltysek : In search for the place: Central Europe, the transitional cultural zone and the serfdom. Some theses on hybrid family systems (17th-18th centuries).
Irina Troitskaia : Two versions of household structures as a reflection of two different concepts of household: Vykhino estate, region of Moscow, 1816-1858


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