David Warren Sabean

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David Warren Sabean (born August 28, 1939 ) is an American historian . His areas of expertise include village history , micro history and social history . His research interests include family and kin history and the incest discourse in Europe.

Act

From 1970 to 1976 Sabean taught at the University of Pittsburgh . There he joined the editorial board of the newly founded Historical Methods Newsletter (later Historical Methods ). He was also the founder and editor of the Peasant Studies Newsletter (later Peasant Studies ). From 1976 to 1983 Sabean was part of a research group of historians at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen , which researched proto-industrialization .

He returned to the USA in 1983 and began his professorship there at the University of California , where he also completed Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 , his first volume on the village history of a small town in southern Germany. In 1998 the second volume followed with the title Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 , with which he worked through and rethinking the categories of earlier social historians. Sabean discussed here the analytical validity of the categories 'relationship' ( kinship ) and 'class' ( class ) and calls for their adaptation in terms of the aspect of social gender ( in terms of gender ) to certain historical issues to re-evaluate.

Over the past few years, Sabean has worked with various academics with the aim of reopening the history of kinship in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. With Simon Teuscher and Jon Mathieu he created the volume Kinship in Europe: Approaches to the Long-Term Development (1300-1900) .

reception

Sabean is considered a pioneer of historical-anthropological research into kinship and community. With his research and teaching activities, he influenced and inspired countless academics and university graduates. He is honored in the essay collection Kinship, Community, and Self - Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean published by the German Studies Association .

In his extensive study Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 Sabean examines the interpersonal relationships of the population in Neckarhausen. According to Ines Elisabeth Kloke , Sabean analyzes the process of economic change from a large number of perspectives. Sabean's self-declared goal of observing a rural social order as closely as possible in order to make social reality visible from within, he succeeded, according to Kloke from the Free University of Berlin in the 16 chapters of this monograph.

Norbert Dannhaeuser from the Texan A&M University also praises the resulting, detailed picture that this historical and ethnographic study draws of the city of Neckarhausen and its residents . Nevertheless, he criticizes Sabean's generous self-interpretations of protocols or the derivation of typical social behavior from atypical examples.

Fonts

  • Land ownership and society on the eve of the Peasants' War: a study d. social conditions in southern Upper Swabia in d. Years ago 1525. Fischer, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 978-3-437-50161-6 .
  • The double-edged sword: rule and contradiction in Württemberg in the early modern period. Reimer, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-496-00865-1 .
  • Property, production, and family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870. Cambridge, New York 1990, ISBN 0-521-38692-6 .
  • Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870. Cambridge, New York 1998, ISBN 0-521-58657-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profile David W. Sabean , Faculty Webpage University of California, Los Angeles.
  2. ^ Kinship, Community, and Self - Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean , review on Berghahnbooks.
  3. ^ Ines Elisabeth Kloke: Review of Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 . In: The Journal of Modern History . tape 66 , no. 2 , 1994, p. 429-431 , JSTOR : 2124318 .
  4. ↑ Norbert Dannhäuser: Review of Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 . In: American Ethnologist . tape 20 , no. 3 , 1993, p. 642-643 , JSTOR : 646663 .
personal data
SURNAME Sabean, David Warren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1939