In the northeastern Algarve, Portugal, semi-dispersed settlements and
property fragmentation evidently had coexisted with a predominantly nuclear family
household pattern since the midnineteenth century, suggesting that a small holding pattern
of land tenure need not always lead to a stem-family household as is so often true in other
areas of Iberia. Other comparisons, drawn between the Algarve and the adjacent region
of Alentejo, suggest that regional variation is strong on all measures and poses an interesting
challenge to social scientific explanation.
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