Abstract
volumes, based on the research project Kin ship and Social Security (KASS). The project is financed by the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme and led by Hannes Grandits (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Patrick Heady (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany). It involves researchers, mainly historians and anthropologists, from eight countries: Italy, Sweden, Germany, France, Austria, Croatia, Poland, and Russia (in the order they appear in the book). One overall aim of the project is to study when, where, and why, during the twentieth century, families/kin were the most important institutions to provide for people, and when and where the welfare state took precedence. The authors would also like to establish a causal link between families/kin and the welfare state. Are wel fare states built in response to some average degree of family and kinship support, or does a strong welfare state lead to reduced family/kinship support? The authors set their ambitions high and at the end of the volume they—as we might have expected—conclude that it is impossi ble to determine the causal direction.
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