L'altra faccia dell'adozione. In difesa dell'adozione aperta.

Paris, Chez Pillet Imprimeur Libraire 1818, cm.14,5x22, pp.416, (timbri e firma di vecchia proprietà al frontespizio). rilegatura in mz.pelle, titoli e fregi in oro al dorso.

Milano, All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro 1972, cm.12x17, pp.58, brossura con cop.con bandelle. Collana La Coda di Paglia,8.

Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1986, cm.15x22,8, pp.X,276, brossura, cop.fig. (piccolo timbro di appartenenza al frontespizio ma buon esemplare.) The author builds on the pioneering work of Peter Laslett, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Georges Duby, Lawrence Stone, Jack Goody and Alan Macfarlane, to produce a book that is aimed at historians, sociologists and anthropologists. The book applies the concepts developed by anthropologists working in the field to very different, indeed almost intractable evidence of historical documents. It is the triumph of the book to demonstrate that despite all the problems, it is possible in a realistic and reliable way to develop an analysis of the kinship system as a whole from documents that only describe individual human relationships. Only in this way, Plakans believes, can historians begin to reflect a central element in the experience not of elites but of the masses of ordinary people - the ties of kinship. "Kinship in the Past" outlines both the difficulties and the advantages of using anthropolgical concepts in historical work in order for the first time to provide a solid basis for important future work.