Introduction: Household and family contexts in the Balkans
Karl Käser
The structural study of the Balkan family began in United States 1940s, producing several generations scholars. Such scholarly continuity is much more recent on European continent. Findings to date suggest pattern male equal partible inheritance could lead four distinctive household formation patterns. But though it seems that system played a key role, was only combination with additional elements evolved. These were neolocality or patrivirilocality; environmental factors (abundance scarcity land, remote mountainous regions, islands); economic such as forms pastoralism, mixed production fishing; and agnatic kinship opposed community ties. Future research will have continue address question familial diversity, well how Balkans compare rest Europe respect crucial characteristics.
The History of the Family