@Nothing Exists! Can you give an example other than Europe on this point you propose? I would like to test your theory some.
@Nothing Exists! Can you give an example other than Europe on this point you propose? I would like to test your theory some.
I found my book, numbered by chapter.
Chapter 2. Exogamous Community Family:
a. Spouse selection: Parents, prohibition of marriage between the children of two brothers.
b. Inheritance: Egalitarian - equality between brothers established by inheritance rules.
c. Family Home: cohabitation of married sons with their parents.
d. Representative Nations, Regions: Russia, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, Albania, central Italy, China, Vietnam, Cuba and north India.
e. Representative Ideology: Communism, Socialism.
Chapter 3. Authoritarian Family:
a. Spouse selection: Parents, little or no marriage between children of brothers.
b. Inheritance: inequality of brothers laid down by inheritance rules, transfer of an unbroken patrimony to one son.
c. Family Home: cohabitation of the married heir with his parents.
d. Representative Nations, Peoples, Regions: Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Bohemia, Scotland, Ireland, peripheral regions of France, northern (Basque) Spain, northern Portugal, Japan, Korea, Jews, Romany Gypsies.
e. Representative Ideology: Fascism, various separatist and autonomous (anti-universalist) movements.
Chapter 4a. Egalitarian Nuclear Family:
a. Spouse selection: Free, no marriage between the children of brothers.
b. Inheritance: Equality of brothers laid down by inheritance rules.
c. Family Home: no cohabitation of married children with their parents.
d. Representative Nations, Regions: northern France, northern Italy, central & southern Spain, central Portugal, Greece, Romania, Poland, Latin America, Ethiopia.
e. Representative Ideology: Christianity (Catholicism); the "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" form of Liberalism.
Chapter 4b. Absolute Nuclear Family:
a. Spouse selection: Free, no marriage between the children of brothers
b. Inheritance: Indifference - no precise inheritance rules, frequent use of wills.
c. Family Home: no cohabitation of married children with their parents.
d. Representative Nations, Peoples, Regions: Anglo-Saxon world, Holland, Denmark.
e. Representative Ideology: Christianity, Capitalism, `Libertarian' Liberalism, and Feminism.
Chapter 5. Endogamous Community Family:
a. Spouse selection: Custom, frequent marriage between the children of brothers.
b. Inheritance: Egalitarian - equality between brothers established by inheritance rules.
c. Family Home: cohabitation of married sons with their parents.
d. Representative Nations, Peoples, Regions: Arab world, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan.
e. Representative Ideology: Islam.
Chapter 6. Asymmetrical Community Family:
a. Spouse selection: Custom, prohibition on marriages between the children of brothers, but a preference for marriages between the children of brothers and sisters.
b. Inheritance: equality between brothers laid down by inheritance rules
c. Family Home: cohabitation of married sons and their parents.
d. Representative Regions: southern India.
e. Representative Ideology: Hinduism
Chapter 7. Anomic Family:
a. Spouse selection: Free, but without obligatory exogamy; consanguine marriage possible and sometimes frequent.
b. Inheritance: Indifference - uncertainty about equality between brothers, inheritance rules egalitarian in theory but uncertain in practice.
c. Family Home: cohabitation of married children with their parents rejected in theory but accepted in practice.
d. Representative Nations, Peoples, Regions: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
e. Representative Ideology: Buddhism, Christianity, and Communism, but potentially anything.