David Warren Sabean

David W. Sabean is a Distinguished Professor of History and the Henry J. Bruman Chair in German History at UCLA. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the recipient of a research prize from the Alexander J. Humboldt Foundation, and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. Sabean helped launch the journals Historical Methods and Peasant Studies. Sabean has worked with a number of scholars engaged in rethinking the history of kinship in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. His books include Interest and Emotion (1984), Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (1984), and Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1990). His research centers on the social and cultural history of Germany and Central Europe from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. He has written on rural rebellion, popular culture, the history of the family and the history of kinship. His current interest is on style and form in bureaucratic writing and on the history of incest discourse in Europe and America since the Renaissance. He has done considerable work on interdisciplinary relations between anthropology and history. He has written essays on village institutions, work, class formation, the history of the self, and on property institutions and gender.