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The Balkan Joint Family: Redefining a Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Karl Kaser
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Research on the Balkan joint family, often incorrectly generalized as zadruga, shows three striking characteristics. First, although there is an abundance of scholarly literature on this issue, most of it is not linked to general questions about family and household structure in western Europe or even eastern Europe. This is unfortunate because findings are not seen in a broader context and are interpreted in isolation.

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Social Science History , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994, pp. 243 - 269
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1994 

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