5.2 Family (the anthropological view)

The key distinctions:family vs household (the kin group vs the co-residential unit — anthropology's precise instrument: the migrant husband's household continues without his body); residence patterns — patrilocal (wife moves; Nepal's dominant rule), matrilocal, neolocal; the domestic cycle (Fortes): households grow and shrink over time (the joint family fissioning on the third generation — Nepal's classic pattern, now accelerated by migration); matrifocal households where men are structurally absent (the remittance village's de-facto pattern — Sociology Unit 6.2's left-behind family read anthropologically).