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Household Economic Strategies: Review and Research Agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Marianne Schmink
Marianne Schmink*
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University of Florida, Gainesville
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Within a number of disciplines such as anthropology, demography, economics, history, and sociology, renewed interest recently has been manifested in research on family and domestic groups. In contrast to traditional studies that sought universal patterns of family structure and function, contemporary research tends to devote greater attention to the diversity of historically specific patterns (Yanagisako 1979). Many scholars are currently focusing on the relationship between changing forms of production and the domestic group formations through which the immediate material needs of most individuals are met.

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , 1984 , pp. 87 - 101
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Copyright © 1984 by Latin American Research Review

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The author is indebted to Judith Bruce, Mary García Castro, Elizabeth Jelin, Thomas W. Merrick, and Charles H. Wood for useful discussions of earlier versions of this paper but retains responsibility for remaining errors of interpretation.

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