The Stem Family in Eurasian Perspective: Revisiting House Societies, 17th-20th Centuries

Cette collection a pour ambition d’accueillir et de promouvoir le dialogue entre les This series welcomes and encourages the dialogue between demography and family studies to démographes et les spécialistes de la famille, dialogue qui renouvelle profondément tant revitalize social history as well as sociology and population studies. l’histoire sociale que la sociologie contemporaine. Elle privilégie les perspectives comparatives, internationales, ainsi que les approches The collection emphasizes comparative and international perspectives, as well as interdisciplinaires, celles qui mêlent les apports de l’histoire, de l’économie, de la statistique, interdisciplinary approaches drawing from history, economics, statistics, sociology, de la sociologie, de la géographie, de la démographie, de l’anthropologie culturelle. geography, demography, and cultural anthropology.

The Editors: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux is Maître de Conférences at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre de Recherches Historiques/CNRS, Paris (France), where she teaches History of the Family. She was a researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, associate Professor at University of Montréal, Canada, and is currently honorary Professor at National University of Salta, Argentina. As a social historian and historical demographer, she has edited several books and published numerous essays on the history of the family, Malthusianism, female migration, gender studies and social change in Europe, and comparative family transmission systems in Eurasia.
Emiko Ochiai is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. She was an Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto and was a visiting research fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Her major research field is the historical and comparative sociology of the family and gender. Her book The Japanese Family System in Transition. A Sociological Analysis of Family Change in Postwar Japan was published in Japanese in 1994 and translated into Korean, Chinese and English.