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The Kin Who Count by Margaret L. Meriwether, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Margaret L. Meriwether

Current price: $35.95
The Kin Who Count by Margaret L. Meriwether, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Kin Who Count by Margaret L. Meriwether, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Kin Who Count by Margaret L. Meriwether, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Margaret L. Meriwether

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The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period. Meriwether recreates Aleppo family life over time from records kept by the Islamic religious courts that held jurisdiction over all matters of family law and property transactions. From this research, she asserts that the stereotype of the large, patriarchal patrilineal family rarely existed in reality. Instead, Aleppo's notables organized their families in a great diversity of ways, despite the fact that they were all members of the same social class with widely shared cultural values, acting under the same system of family law. She concludes that this had important implications for gender relations and demonstrates that it gave women more authority and greater autonomy than is usually acknowledged. | The Kin Who Count by Margaret L. Meriwether, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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