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the domestic cycle in India: natural history of a will‐o‘‐the‐wisp
Author(s) -
FREED STANLEY A.,
FREED RUTH S.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1983.10.2.02a00070
Subject(s) - peasant , diversity (politics) , domestic relations , period (music) , business cycle , nuclear family , geography , genealogy , economy , history , demography , sociology , economics , political science , anthropology , family law , law , philosophy , keynesian economics , archaeology , aesthetics
The concept of the domestic cycle is evaluated by an analysis of the changes that domestic groups have undergone in the Indian village of Shanti Nagar during a 19‐year period. Diversity of family histories precludes the existence of a single domestic cycle, or even of two or three dominant cycles. There are, however, significant regularities, such as the frequent evolution of nuclear families into lineal joint families. [India, social structure, domestic cycle, family types, peasant society]