This article explores the forms of family organization in a mountain community of Greece during the end of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Special attention is paid to the concept of a system of household formation. It is argued that the dominant models fail to provide adequate understanding of the ways in which the desired domestic structures come into being and that one has to search beyond the “classical” demographic criteria to achieve a comprehensive account and understanding of household formation behavior.
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