Households: comparative and historical studies of the domestic group

Papers from the Wenner-Gren Symposium in which eminent anthropologists and historians addressed the question, with new research, of what households do, how they function in societies throughout the world, and how they change through time. Contributors include Anthony Carter on household histories; William Douglass on immigrant Basques; Richard Will on the Maya of Belize; Sylvia Yanagasako on Japanese-Americans; others. 480 pages