An Anthropological Approach to Family Studies

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The anthropological approach to family studies is defined in terms of intensive case studies of families as functioning wholes, utilizing all the conceptual categories and methods generally employed in studies of the total culture. Family case studies of this type are particularly useful for problems in the field of culture and personality. They provide a level of description intermediate between the conceptual extremes of the individual at one pole and the culture at the other, thereby avoiding the high level of abstraction and generalization of cultural analysis in which individuals as real human beings may be ignored. Studies made in Tepotozlan, Mexico, are cited as a demonstration of the method.

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