Household and Family Structures

Caption

Household and Family Structures

Summary

This map shows the existence of three different types of family structures around the world during the last 100 years: the nuclear family, the mixed extended and nuclear family, and the descent group.

Source

John Allen, Student Atlas of Anthropology, First Edition (p. 104-105)

Copyright

Copyright © 2004 by The McGraw-Hill Companies
Reproduced by permission of McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series.