30.3 - Siblings–Parents–Grandparents
Special Issue
- Fertig, Georg: Geschwister - Eltern - Großeltern: die historische Demographie zwischen den Disziplinen.
- Signori, Gabriela: Geschwister: Metapher und Wirklichkeit in der spätmittelalterlichen Denk- und Lebenswelt.
- Lünnemann, Volker: Familialer Besitztransfer und Geschwisterbeziehungen in zwei westfälischen Gemeinden (19. Jahrhundert).
- Egli, Werner M.: Geschwisterbeziehungen, Erbrechte und Migrationsformen in Bergbauern-Gesellschaften in einer ethnologischen Perspektive (Nepal, 20. Jahrhundert).
- Harders, Ann-Cathrin: Zwischen Kooperation und Repräsentation: Bruder-Schwester-Beziehungen in der römischen Republik und im frühen Prinzipat (2. Jh. v. Chr. - 1. Jh. n. Chr.).
- Knackmuß, Susanne: "Meine Schwestern sind im Kloster ...": Geschwisterbeziehungen des Nürnberger Patriziergeschlechtes Pirckheimer zwischen Klausur und Welt, Humanismus und Reformation.
- Guzzi-Heeb, Sandro: Von der Familien- zur Verwandschaftsgeschichte: der mikrohistorische Blick ; Geschichten von Verwandten im Walliser Dorf Vouvry zwischen 1750 und 1850.
- Szoltysek, Mikolaj; Rzemieniecki, Konrad: Between 'traditional' collectivity and 'modern' individuality: an atomistic perspective on family and household astride the Hajnal Line (Upper Silesia and Great Poland at the end of the 18th century).
- Oris, Michel; Ritschard, Gilbert; Ryczkowska, Grazyna: Siblings in a (neo-)Malthusian town: from cross-sectional to longitudinal perspectives.
- Margraf-Buhles, Claudia: Victor Klemperer im Kreise seiner Geschwister: Rebell und Hoffnungsträger.
- Voland, Eckart; Beise, Jan: Bilanzen des Alters: oder: Was lehren uns ostfriesische Kirchenbücher über die Evolution von Großmüttern?
- Kemkes-Grottenthaler, Ariane: Of grandmothers, grandfathers and wicked step-grandparents: differential impact of paternal grandparents on grandoffspring survival.
- Tymicki, Krzysztof: The interplay between infant mortality and subsequent reproductive behaviour: evidence for the replacement effect from historical population of Bejsce Parish, 18th-20th centuries, Poland.
- Poppel, Frans van; Liefbroer, Aart C.: Living conditions during childhood and survival in later life: study design and first results.
- Pellier, Karine: Organisation of a cliometric database.
HSR Vol. 30 (2005) No. 3: Special Issue: Siblings – Parents – Grandparents
Georg Fertig (Ed.): Siblings – Parents – Grandparents: Contributions of Historical, Anthropological, and Demographical Research
How did and does society arrange the closest relatives – sisters, brothers, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren? This HSR Special Issue unifies contributions of different disciplines, covering qualitative and quantitative history, ethnology, economy, and biology. The contributions deal with three issues. Firstly, it is about the way the parents‘ generation structure sibling relationships, inheritance and consequences. Secondly, they discuss the question if “the foreign” already began with the own brother and sister – and what that meant for individual and collective life concepts. Thirdly, it is asked to what extent parents and grandparents were willing and capable to invest in the welfare of their children. This HSR Special Issue thus discusses the approaches to an interdisciplinary field of research, such as historical demography, takes when addressing the topics of sibling relations and intrafamilial support. Demography is defined as the most radically quantitative of all social sciences, whilst history, having recently undergone a culturalist turn, now offers only little room for quantitative methods. The real challenge of interdisciplinarity is however not presented by the variance in methods humanities and social sciences often suffer from and sometimes enjoy, but in dealing with evolutionary biology. Old and medieval history, ethnology, and modern social history are all interested in understanding the actions of the people they study. For biologists, these actions are proxies for the genetic baggage acquired over a very long time span. When we take note of their work we should therefore be aware of this fundamental difference in cognitive interest.