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Rig of fattig i Ribe: økonomiske og sociale forhold i Ribe-samfundet 1560 - 1660
In: Skrifter udgivet af Jysk Selskab for Historie
Tre danske kystsamfund i det 19. århundrede
In: Odense University studies in history and social sciences vol. 171
Fishing Families in Three Danish Coastal Communities
In: Journal of family history: studies in family, kinship and demography, Volume 18, Issue 4, p. 357-368
ISSN: 1552-5473
Earlier studies of population in Denmark have dealt mainly with demographic behavior in rural areas that depended on agriculture and where restricted access to limited resources resulted in very high ages at first marriage and small average household size. This study concentrates on another agrarian variant—fishing communities. Developments in three coastal communities were analyzed for the period 1787–1901. The inhabitants lived mainly from fishing. Given the technology of the day, this was an occupation with nearly unlimited resources. Furthermore, there were no legal restrictions on the partitioning of land in the hamlets on the coast or on fishing in nearby coastal waters. These conditions resulted in earlier marriages, but not in a different family type. Young people in the hamlets established their own households when they married, and fishermen conformed to the nuclear family pattern dominant in the Nordic countries.
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In: Scandinavian economic history review, Volume 45, Issue 2, p. 190-205
ISSN: 1750-2837