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The changing role of the family in a rural Irish community
Journal of comparative family studies • 10 (2) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 141-162
By: Kane, Eileen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of a relatively poor farming village in County Galway. The basic kin unit is the kindred, which includes lineal and collateral connections. The kindred group comes together at weddings, wakes, and times of crisis. Cooperative work groups are drawn from the kindred. The author discusses kinship terminology, personal names, and nicknames. Other topics include the extended family, mother and daughter-in-law relationships, household budgets and finances, childrearing, sibling rivalry, gender relations, and old age. The author also notes changes that have occurred in the community since 1968, with the rise in tourism and establishment of an industrial estate in the area.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Division of labor by gender
- Personal names
- Regulation of marriage
- Household
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Kinship terminology
- Kindreds and ramages
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rural Irish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- British Isles
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1904-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- County Galway, Connacht, Ireland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Eileen Kane
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 161 - 162)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74641687
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ireland--Rural conditions