Academic

The Household
Informal Order around the Hearth
Robert C. Ellickson

One of Choice?s 2009 Outstanding Academic Titles

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Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings, social considerations, and economic constraints all influence how household participants select their homemates and govern their interactions around the hearth.

"Robert C. Ellickson defines the household as a voluntary grouping of relatives or non-relatives living under the same roof. As he points out in his engaging study, this pervasive institution has received surprisingly little attention from social theorists. . . . The Household, a short, curious and enjoyable book, provides a novel way of looking at an institution from which very few of us can escape."--Lucy Worsley, Times Literary Supplement

Paper | $19.95 / £13.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-14799-4
Cloth | 2008 | $24.95 / £16.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-13442-0