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The creation of a family is based on a certain number of organizers, which are both material and spiritual, physical and physical and psychical, individual and social, natural and cultural. Organizers of the morphogenetic landscape of the family include: 1  Ancestral function: these manifest themselves in biological, ethnic, religious and political characteristics. 2  Temporospatial functions: we can distinguish here: (a)  the historical and geographical trajectories of the families of origin and of the current family; (b)  the nature of the habitat ( ‘oikos’ or ‘domus’ ); (c)  the organization of time. 3  The distribution of tasks, the anchoring in work: (a)  socio-professional identity; (b)  housework, the management of the assets. 4  The nature of systems of alliance of the families of origin: (a)  the transmission of the family name (matrilinear, patrilinear or composite); (b)  the real nature of the parental couple, above and beyond the mere biological parents (single-parent, two-parent, nuclear or communal families); (c)  the articulation of the nuclear, extended and clan sub-systems and ideological belief; (d)  the transmission of authority and heritage. Etho-anthropological organizers include: 1  The family's rites and rituals: seduction rituals, ceremonies surrounding births, marriages and deaths, the centripetal functions of children etc.(see ritualization ). 2  The ... log in or subscribe to read full text