This paper examines certain features of Turkish Muslim family and
household structures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on
a variety of historical, ethnographic, and demographic sources, largely in relation
to rural society, it analyzes meanings attributed to the terms family and house
hold in the past in Turkey, and then outlines the main features of the late Ot
toman Turkish household formation system. Consideration is given to disparities
between the rules of the system and their realization.
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