The house is gaily decorated. The guests are arriving. It is the day of samarttiya kalyanam. This is the day when a Tamil girl becomes a woman---at about the age of 13. Before the ceremony, the girl...
A new baby in the family
The arrival of a baby is a happy, busy time for a family. Many things have to be clone for the new little one. In most parts of the world, there are special ceremonies connected with the birth of a...
The biggest family of all
> An Ashanti family has a meal in the mother's house. The father lives > in another house. How would you like to have many mothers, many fathers, and lots of brothers and sisters? Impossible? Not...
Four parents to a family
> When grandparents, parents, and children live together, they do most > things together, too. "Over the river and through the woods, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way to carry...
Many families – one house
In most villages around the world, you'll find lots of houses. But on the island of Borneo, a Dyak village may have only one house! That's because the house is a village all by itself! A Dyak house,...
Part-time families
Israel This Israeli family celebrates a birthday. They live on a big farm called a kibbutz. On a kibbutz in Israel, parents and children do not live together. The parents stay in a house for...
The basic kind of family
> Canada > > The family is the center of Eskimo life. > > Eskimos love children and seldom punish them. The basic family group in most parts of the world is made up of a father, mother, and one...
Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
What is a family? To the ancient Greeks, it was a mother, father, and their children, living together in the same house. That's what the word "family" has meant to many people for thousands of...
The cloud in space
When Rick's uncle came for his usual Sunday visit, Rick was waiting for him at the door. Uncle Frank was a scientist---an astronomer---and Rick had an important question to ask him. "Uncle Frank,...
The chain from heaven
> Afunjo knew that his father was an anthropologist--- but he didn't > know what that was. He knew that his father spent lots of time at the > museum, in the town of Ife. And he knew his father often...
