The peasant family as an economic unit in the Polish feudal economy of the eighteenth century

Kochanowicz, Jacek

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“…Even J. Kochanowicz, in an by all means interesting contribution to the second Cambridge Group's volume, gave no account of historical family structures and household formation patterns, although the data he used could have very well served to reveal them (Kochanowicz, 1983).…”

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Three kinds of preindustrial household formation system in historical Eastern Europe: A challenge to spatial patterns of the European family

Szołtysek¹

2008

The History of the Family

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In their modelling and classificatory ventures western scholars have usually mistakenly included family forms in historical Eastern Europe by induction in well-established generalizations about Russian or Balkan populations. At the same time, well into the late 1990s, most of Eastern European historians have shown no interest in studying domestic groups in socio-historical perspective. This article attempts to restate that picture through a thorough analysis of an unprecedented collection of historical household data for the late eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largests political entities in Europe of that time. Through an application of a variety of methodologies three regional family patterns have been distinguished on the historical Polish territories, their main characteristics described and then juxtaposed against the major features of paradigmatic examples of the 'Eastern European family type'. The results indicate that the existing models of household systems in preindustrial Europe are far too rigid to meet the diversity of residential patterns of the Eastern European serfs. Analysis of the data set on spatially, culturally and socioeconomically diverse regions has also facilitated a preliminary identification of the factors shaping these family systems. The data presented here suggests that the conventional wisdom regarding the institutional mechanisms of the Eastern European manorialism of the second serfdom as sufficient to create a homogenous pattern of family residence must be seriously questioned. In particular, what must be meticulously revised is a sweeping generalization still in practice that posits a functional link between coercive forms of labor control and complex household structures among peasant subjects.

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Three kinds of preindustrial household formation system in historical Eastern Europe: A challenge to spatial patterns of the European family

Szołtysek¹

2008

The History of the Family

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“…In historical Russia, landlords were invested in the stability of farm production and prevented the division of households whenever possible (Czap 1983). In Poland, the interest of manorial estates in maintaining large households was often in conflict with peasant households that wished to divide (Kochanowicz 1983).…”

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25. Cooperation and Competition Begin at Home

Jennings

2024

Human Evolutionary Demography

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Households are the next social unit above the individual and are home to shared activities that can include resource production, distribution and transmission in addition to reproduction and co-residence. They overlap with biological and social kin groups but are defined by activities rather than by relationships alone. This chapter reviews literature from historical and anthropological studies of households with relevance for human evolutionary demography. Selected research on household effects on mortality, fertility, and intra-household conflict across different agricultural societies is presented to familiarize evolutionary demographers with concepts, issues, and findings in the interdisciplinary and comparative literature on the household. Household researchers have drawn upon evolutionary concepts as part of explanatory models but are less likely to test evolutionary hypotheses directly. Evolutionary researchers have focused on familial relationships, but seldom consider power structures within households and the effects of household composition and dynamics on behaviour. Areas with potential for mutually beneficial collaboration between evolutionary and household analysts are highlighted and advocated for. Such collaborations have the potential to advance our understanding of the determinants of demographic behaviour by joining rich data sources with theoretical frameworks drawn from evolutionary and household perspectives.

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“…Przed ponad 20 laty, gdy zainteresowałem się badaniem struktury gospodarstw domowych, istniało silne przekonanie, że na ziemiach etnicznie polskich dominowały rodziny rozbudowane, złożone albo z dwóch małżeństw (ojca i syna z żonami), albo przynajmniej rozszerzone o krewnych wstępnych, czyli ojca, lub częściej matkę pozostających na utrzymaniu prowadzącego gospodarstwo następcy (na wycugu). Nieliczne były wówczas studia pokazujące, że obraz ten może nie być prawdziwy przynajmniej w odniesieniu do okresu pańszczyźnianego (Kochanowicz 1983a).…”

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Źródła do rekonstrukcji struktury chłopskich i szlacheckich gospodarstw domowych na ziemiach polskich w XVII i XVIII wieku

Kopczyński¹

2016

Wielowymiarowość Badań Biodemograficznych I Związki Z Innymi Naukami

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The peasant family as an economic unit in the Polish feudal economy of the eighteenth century

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Three kinds of preindustrial household formation system in historical Eastern Europe: A challenge to spatial patterns of the European family

Three kinds of preindustrial household formation system in historical Eastern Europe: A challenge to spatial patterns of the European family

25. Cooperation and Competition Begin at Home

Źródła do rekonstrukcji struktury chłopskich i szlacheckich gospodarstw domowych na ziemiach polskich w XVII i XVIII wieku

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