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Northern Coresidence across Generations: Northern Norway during the Last Part of the Nineteenth Century
Hilde L. Jåstad, Minnesota Population Center visiting scholar from the Centre for Sámi Studies, University of Tromsø
| What | MPC Seminar Series |
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October 26, 2009 12:15 PM
October 26, 2009 01:15 PM
October 26, 2009 from 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm |
| Where | MPC Seminar Room, 50 Willey Hall |
| Contact Phone | 612-624-8806 |
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Abstract: Scholars describe the preindustrial Norwegian family system as a stem-family system, sustained by the laws of inheritance. This system's strong influence on people's living arrangements diminished throughout the nineteenth century, due to the new occupational alternatives caused by increased emigration and growing urbanization. How well does this description fit the multiethnic Northern Norway? The stem-family system is defined through the presence of elderly people, and analyzing this presents a new perspective from which general family systems can be observed and understood. The analysis are based upon coded versions of the 1865, 1875 and 1900 Norwegian population censuses, extracted from the North Atlantic Population Project. This talk emphasizes a discussion on the change in intergenerational coresidence that took place in Northern Norway in the late 1800s, its demographic characteristics, the effect of the economy and to what extent the elder's living arrangements differed by ethnic affiliation.
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