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In the Yoruba kingdom of Ondo, 2 households are conceptualized as special social units, and they form distinct social groupings. In contrast, families are given only a limited recognition, at best and they form distinct social groups only in limited contexts. Comparable situations are readily found in the ethnographic literature.
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Donald R. Bender (1971) studied this question.
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