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Original scientific paper

AN ETHNOLOGIST'S APPROACH TO STUDYING HOUSEHOLDS FROM QUANTITATIVE SOURCES

Jasna Čapo ; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia


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Abstract

It is evident from this model that a knowledge of the context in which a document was made is crucial for the interpretation of the document especially if criteria for the delineation of households are not made explicit in the document. Contextualization implies both socio-historical and ethnographic investigation. It is also evident that a larger numerous documents from different sources are preferable.
The application of the model to a set of Croatian data on households -about the 18th century estate of Cemik, and the use of ethnographic information has enabled the author to analyze and compare different sources about households - county tax lists, estate corvce lists and church lists. She has hypothesized that estate corvee lists actually report the number of economic units while tax county and church lists report residential units.

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Hrčak ID:

56403

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/56403

Publication date:

15.7.1990.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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