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Ancestral home
An ancestral home is the place of origin of one's extended family, particularly the home owned and preserved by the same family for several generations.[citation needed] The term can refer to an individual house or estate, or to a broader geographic area such as a town, a region, or an entire country. An ancestral home may be a physical place, part of a series of places that one associates with state, nation or region.[1] In the latter cases, the phrase ancestral homeland might be used.[2] In particular, the concept of a diaspora requires the concept of an ancestral home from which the diaspora emanates.[3] However, it is also possible that "[t]he family living in an ancestral home is surrounded by visible, physical symbols of family continuity and solidarity".[4]
- ^ Li, Tingting Elle; Chan, Eric Tak Hin (November 2018). "Connotations of ancestral home: An exploration of place attachment by multiple generations of Chinese diaspora". Population, Space and Place. 24 (8): e2147. doi:10.1002/psp.2147.
- ^ Russell King, Anastasia Christou, Peggy Levitt, Links to the Diasporic Homeland: Second Generation and Ancestral 'Return' Mobilities (2015), p. 1.
- ^ Aaron Yankholmes, "The Articulation of Collective Slave Memories and 'Home' among Expatriate Diasporan Africans in Ghana", in Sabine Marschall, Tourism and Memories of Home: Migrants, Displaced People, Exiles and Diasporic Communities (2017), Ch. 11.
- ^ Ernest Watson Burgess, Harvey James Locke, Mary Margaret Thomes, The Family: From Traditional to Companionship (1971), p. 450.
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