Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 260)

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Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 260)

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road exhibits new forms of social integration transcending clan
affiliation that characterized village living quarters up till then.
IV. The Transformation in the Spatial Organisation of the House
The essence of change in the spatial organisation of the house can be
summed up by saying that the individual house (el-beit) as well as
the extended family courtyard dwelling ceased to be the focal point
of production activities.
The new peasant individualism generated by emigration, wage labour,
market relations, marginality of agricultural activities, individual
ownership of land and the considerable change in occupational
structure, led to the destruction of the functionality of the
extended family. The traditional courtyard dwelling, which once
housed a number of extended families, has been replaced by the
jndividual house. fThese individual houses no longer form a boundary
including the central introverted courtyard (hosh) which protected
this semi-private domain of the sub-clan from the rest of the village
(chapter 4).
Today as figure [1.11 shows each house is located in the middle of an
jndividually-owned plot of land, hence breaking away from the
traditional pattern of compact juxtaposition of houses. Appendix I
jllustrates that the majority of newly-constructed houses in the
twenties and thirties belonged to a new stratum whose identity was
increasingly being defined by their occupation as opposed to their
Lineage.
Fig. I1.11: New houses built in the midst of individually owned land
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