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Duofocal family structure and an alternative model of husband-wife relationships
Sex roles, family & community in Turkey • Bloomington, Ind. (143 Goodbody Hall, Bloomington 47405) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 33-72
By: Olson, Emelie A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a discussion of husband-wife relationships in Turkey. The author argues against an oversimplified evolutionary model of the family in which extended, segregated, and patriarchal structure gives way to a nuclear, joint, and egalitarian one. Rather spouses enter marriage with their own network of social relationships, which they continue to maintain. While the contemporary Turkish family is more egalitarian and nuclear, it remains segregated as husband and wife continue to operate in separate domains with regard to work and recreation. Only among elite families according to the author is there an effort to approximate the joint conjugal relationships of modern Western nuclear families with couples spending their leisure time together.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Household
- Family relationships
- Nuclear family
- Sexuality
- Adolescent activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Turks
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Turkey
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emelie A. Olson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-72)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82084525
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Families--Turkey
- Sex role--Turkey
- Women--Turkey--Social conditions
- Community life
- Turkey--Social conditions