Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group.

Abstract

These are the proceedings of a symposium entitled Households: Changing Form and Function held at the Seven Springs Conference Center Mt. Kisco New York on October 9-15 1981. The symposium attempted to bring together anthropologists and social historians sharing a common interest in what the household does and how it works. The focus was on how and why households vary within and among societies or over time within a society. The papers are grouped under three main headings: the method and theory of studying the household household morphology and activity and households as persisting cultural forms. The geographic focus is worldwide.