ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a taxonomy of complex households in five tribes. This composition is based on principles of residential patterns, inclusion of patrikin of men and their wives as well as of women with their uxorilocal husbands with or without children. The chapter first classifies complex households into certain types of kinship and numerical compositions. Then it discusses different patterns of interpersonal relations of members residing in these compositions to illuminate the nature of the developmental process of the household. Household patterns of five tribal groups are compared and contrasted based on certain similarities and differences with the assistance of relevant genealogical charts.
