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dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Ana Isabel-
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, Joaquim Ramos de-
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-16T14:39:39Z-
dc.date.available2017-11-16T14:39:39Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.isbn8884925541por
dc.identifier.isbn9788884925541por
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10316/44439-
dc.description.abstractTh ´is chapter attempts to demonstrate that the information available in parish registers can provide exceptional insights into the social structure of local communities. Our approach is not based on individual attributes such as occupational data but on the relational patterns detected among spiritual kin. We discuss the characteristics of this type of network and provide results from an ongoing study of a Portuguese town where parish registers from the 17th and 18th century were analysed for this purpose. We will try to show that spiritual kinship networks have special formal characteristics that indicate that they are both a re ection of social structure (in the sense of the collective perception of di erent social positions) and also part of the processes by which the social structure is created and modi ed. is chapter is structured in the following way: rst we describe what spiritual kinship is and the processes by which it was acquired in the past; secondly we introduce a basic methodological assumption underlining this research: that the most common origin of spiritual kin, the choice of godfathers and godmothers, operated as a social positioning event, a process by which people assert their social position in relation to one another; thirdly we will describe how, on this basis, we can reconstruct a global image of the so- cial structure as it emerges from the perceptions of social actors through the application of social network analysis methods. We will then present examples of such structures taken from the preliminary analysis of the parish records of a small town in Portugal in the Early Modern Period and make some theoretical and methodological remarks concerning the relevance of our ndings for current research into social networks, pro- viding an overview of some methodological aspects involved in the reconstruction of social networks from historical data.por
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.publisherPLUS-Pisa University Presspor
dc.relationSixth Framework Network of Excellence CLIOHRES.net under the contract CIT3-CT-2005-006164.por
dc.rightsopenAccesspor
dc.subjectspiritual kinshippor
dc.subjectsocial network analysispor
dc.subjectParentesco espiritualpor
dc.subjectanálise de redespor
dc.titleUsing Network Analysis on Parish Registers: How Spiritual Kinship Uncovers Social Structurepor
dc.typebookPartpor
degois.publication.firstPage171por
degois.publication.lastPage186por
degois.publication.locationPisapor
degois.publication.titleBridging the gaps: sources, methodology and approaches to religion in Historypor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
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crisitem.author.deptFaculty of Arts and Humanities-
crisitem.author.researchunitCEIS20 - Centre of 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies-
crisitem.author.researchunitCEIS20 - Centre of 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0002-7515-2696-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0003-2325-7098-
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