Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Shrinking households

  • Future Families
  • Published:
Society Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Readings Suggested by the Author

  • Sahlins, Marshall D. “Land Use and the Extended Family in Moala, Fiji.”American Anthropologist 59 (1957): 449–62.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, Thomas C.The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stenning, Derrick J. “Household Viability among the Pastoral Fulani.” InThe Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups, edited by Jack Goody. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wheaton, Robert. “Family and Kinship in Western Europe: The Problem of the Joint Family Household.”Journal of Interdisciplinary History 4 (Spring 1975): 601–28.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • White, Lynn, Jr.Medieval Technology and Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962, 1966.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. the Anthropology Department, Rutgers University, USA

    Yehudi A. Cohen (professor in and chairman)

Authors
  1. Yehudi A. Cohen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

He has done field work in Jamaica, Okinawa, and Israel. Among his other books, he has edited a three-volume set of readings, Man in Adaptation.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Cohen, Y.A. Shrinking households. Society 18, 48–52 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694669

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694669

Keywords

Search

Navigation