Contributors; Preface; Introduction Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean; Part I. Family and the Economy of Emotion: 1. Interest and emotion in family and kinship studies: a critique of social history and anthropology Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean; 2. Putting kin and kinship to good use: the circulation of goods, labour, and names on Karpathos (Greece) Bernard Vernier; Part II. Materna in Extremis: the Clash of Interests between Mother and Child: 3. Infanticide in rural Barvaria in the nineteenth century Regina Schulte; 4. Possession and dispossession: maternity and mortality in Morocco Vanessa Maher; Part III. Property in the Mediation of Family Relations: 5. 'Avoir sa part': sibling relations in partible inheritance Brittany Martine Segalen; 6. Tensions, dissensions, and ruptures inside the family in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Haute Provence Alain Collomp; 7. Young bees in an empty hive: relations between brother-in-law in a South German village around 1800 David Warren Sabean.