6 November 2018, 1400-1800 • Hollandstraße, 11-13, 1st floor seminar room 50, 1020 Vienna

BiograpHyMartine Segalen is Professeur émérite of the Université de Paris Nanterre, and former editor-in-chief of Ethnologie française.

professor Segalen’s threefold interests are kinship, social rituals, and museums of he-ritage. She deals with those topics within the disciplinary frame-work of the anthropology of EuropepublicationSRites et rituels contemporains, paris, armand colin, 2017, 3e édition.Sociologie de la famille. paris, armand colin, 7e édition, entièrement remaniée, 2010 (also available in translation).A qui appartiennent les enfants, paris, tallandier, 2010.Vie d’un musée, paris, Stock, 2005.Éloge du mariage, paris, gallimard, collection Découvertes, 2003.Le nouvel esprit de famille (avec nicole lapierre et claudine attias-Donfut), pa-ris, odile Jacob, 2002.Ethnologie. Concepts et aires culturelles (ed.), paris, armand colin, 2001.Grands-parents. La famille à travers les générations (avec claudine attias-Donfut), paris, odile Jacob, 1998, 2e édition 2007.La famille en Europe. Parenté et perpétuations familiales en Europe, (ed. avec Marianne gullestad) paris, la Découverte, 1995.Histoire de la famille (en collaboration avec andré burguière, christiane Klapisch-Zuber et Françoise Zonabend), paris, le livre de poche, 1994 (also available in translation).Les enfants d‘Achille et de Nike, Une ethnologie de la course à pied ordinaire, paris, Métailié, 1994, 2e édition, 2017.L‘Autre et le semblable. Regards sur l‘ethnologie des sociétés contemporaines (ed., ouvrage collectif), paris, presses du cnrS, 1989.Quinze générations de bas bretons. Parenté et société dans le pays bigouden sud (1720-1980). paris, p.u.F., 1985. English title: Fifteen Generations of Bretons, cambridge university press, 2007.

ABStractWhat are the reciprocal influences of prevailing kinship systems and gender roles?it seems obvious to ask this question nowadays, but it was not on the agenda when research about European kinship systems and marriage first de-veloped. between 1970 and 1990, a host of pu-blications developed in Europe dealt with inheri-tance patterns, or with structures and functions underlying domestic groups, using anthropologi-cal, historical and/or demographical approaches. Some researchers, for example, focused on the way property affected kinship. others concen-trated on the relationship between residential patterns, inheritance and marriage systems.the connection between ‘kinship’ and ‘gender’ was thus operated through various research avenues. in this presentation, i will first delineate the rea-sons and forms of the encounter between ‘kinship’ and ‘gender’. the second part will be devoted to the analysis of the variety of inheritance patterns in rural Europe, inasmuch as they bear conse-quences to gender roles. the ethnographic pre-sentation of various cases, thematised in the third part, will help us show the complexity of the rela-tion. gender in peasant society has to be thought of in relation to the family as a production unit and we have to investigate the scope of female agency in this context.

SFb ViScoM (F42) and FSp gemeinschaft, Konflikt und integration (universität Wien)

presentMartine Segalen (Université de Paris Nanterre )

Gender And inheritAnce pAtterns in rurAl europe Women as Wives, Widows, daughters, sisters