Families: 20 Ways of Living
The aim of this study by Isidre Escorihuela and Isabel de la Parte is to take a close look at the complexity of the different family patterns in 20th century Andorra and find out how the family is likely to be perceived in the 21st century.
They have sought to grasp the diverse reality that is all about us by looking at twenty different ways of living as a family through the portraits that the author, the photographer, has abstracted from the words of the people photographed.
Together with the photograph, a brief word portrait is painted of each family in which they express their beliefs, their strategies and their feelings, thereby establishing a dialogue between the authors and the twenty families featured in the book.
Accompanying all this there are four articles by anthropologists demonstrating the universal nature of the family and its social and cultural significance over and above biological bonds.
Isidre Escorihuela Magrinyà is a photographer and works as a technician in the Historical Archive of Andorra. Isabel de la Parte Cano is an anthropologist and carries out research to do with the home, the family and the community in rural mountain society.