We now turn to husbands' feelings about their homes. In addition, we consider an aspect of attachment to homes that spontaneously arose in our discussions with husbands and wives, namely, the management of a husband's clothing. Where does he keep his clothing – in one home, or spread out among homes?

Place attachment, territoriality, and privacy regulation in homes

Do husbands in plural families have homes or areas in homes of their own?

It is quite rare for a husband in monogamous Western cultures to have a dwelling apart from that of his wife. In contrast, as explained in chapter 10, living arrangements in traditional polygynous cultures range from those in which a husband and his wives lived communally to those in which husbands and wives have their own separate dwellings. For example, husbands and wives among the Kikuyu (Kenyatta, 1973) and the Masai of Africa (Talle, 1987) have their own huts. In such cases the husband uses his dwelling to entertain guests, wives care for his dwelling, and the husband rotates among his wives' huts for sleeping and sexual relationships. Among the cultures in which husbands share homes with their wives are the Bedouin of Israel. Here, husbands entertain guests in part of a family's tent (Marx, 1987). And husbands in the Gusii culture of Africa use part of a wife's dwelling to spend time alone or with friends (LeVine and LeVine, 1963).