Family and Kindship in Europe

Fertility: the condition of self-perpetuation. Difering trends in Europe; Family and kinship in Italy; The missing link: family memory and identity in Germany; Family, kinship and residence in urban Catalonia; the modernity of "pairalism"; Houses and legends: family as community of practice in urban Portugal; Urban clannishness and the nuclear kin: trends in Swedish family life; Individuality and adaptability in English kinship; Inheritance and relationships between family members; Home-sharing and the transmission of inheritance in France; Fashioning a new family tie: step-parents and step-grandparents; From "being of use" to "finding oneself": dilemmas of value transmission between the generations in Norway.