Anthropology › Section K · Kinship and family › Topic K.2
Defining family and household
"Family" sounds like the most obvious word in any language, yet anthropologists find that who counts as family, and who lives under one roof, varies widely. Separating family from household, and learning to draw and read kinship diagrams, makes those differences visible.
In this topic
- Family is not the same as household
- Families take many shapes
- Two kinds of tie
- Drawing kinship diagrams
- The shorthand of kinship
- Worked example: decoding the shorthand
- Nuclear, extended and blended families
- Fictive kin: compadrazgo
- Milk kinship, fostering and adoption
- Worked example: family or household?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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