Territoire et parenté. Pour une mise en perspective de la communauté rurale et des formes de reproduction familiale

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Territory and Kinship Study of the Rural Community and Forms of Family Reproduction. The variety of forms taken by the rural community in the medieval and modern period raises the question of the criteria which determined the construction of social identities. In particular, we are dealing with the question of the relationship of kinship to residence of community filiation to spadal relations. Since these different types of logic are at play the forms of reproduction within the family, we are led to reflect upon the interferences, the competition or the convergences which might be established between these two levels which are often analysed separately : how might we approach the problem of the relationship between community phenomena and the dynamics of domestic reproduction ? By extension, we shall find ourself obliged to reexamine the very notion of "transmission" and the relation between the circulation of goods within the framework of kinship relations and outside of such relations by opposing logics of transferal relating to goods and rights to logics of integration/exclu sion relating to people. Finally, we will examine the different possible ways of writing rural community history must one approach this institution from the angle of its liberation and its autonomis ation from rival powers or rather from the point of view of the transformation of territorial relations that has characterised European society since the Middle Ages ?