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The Organization of Households in Adabraka: Toward a Wider Comparative Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Roger Sanjek
Roger Sanjek
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Queens CollegeCity University of New York
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Households everywhere are staging areas for social life: places where individuals sleep, store personal belongings, and refurbish themselves, physically and psychologically, for the day ahead. The fire and simple shelter of the Australian Mardudjara (Tonkinson 1978), the sections within farming compounds of the Ghanaian Tallensi (Fortes 1949a), and the rooms in Manhattan hotels rented by poor, elderly, or mentally disturbed men and women (Sokolovsky et al. 1978) are each examples of this basic aspect of household life. How then should households be compared in order to understand the ways in which ethnographic cases differ?

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 57 - 103
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1982

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