Fishing Families in Three Danish Coastal Communities
| Autor: | Ole Degn, Hans Chr. Johansen, Per Madsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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education.field_of_study
Economic growth 060106 history of social sciences business.industry Population Fishing 06 humanities and the arts language.human_language 060104 history Danish Agrarian society Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Agriculture Anthropology language 0601 history and archaeology Rural area business Socioeconomics education Limited resources Nuclear family Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Family History. 18:357-368 |
| ISSN: | 1552-5473 0363-1990 |
| Popis: | Earlier studies of population in Denmark have dealt mainly with demographic behavior in rural areas that depended on agriculture and where restricted access to limited resources resulted in very high ages at first marriage and small average household size. This study concentrates on another agrarian variant—fishing communities. Developments in three coastal communities were analyzed for the period 1787–1901. The inhabitants lived mainly from fishing. Given the technology of the day, this was an occupation with nearly unlimited resources. Furthermore, there were no legal restrictions on the partitioning of land in the hamlets on the coast or on fishing in nearby coastal waters. These conditions resulted in earlier marriages, but not in a different family type. Young people in the hamlets established their own households when they married, and fishermen conformed to the nuclear family pattern dominant in the Nordic countries. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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