Typologies of the household extend far beyond mere physical arrangements or economic units; they operate at the level of ways of seeing, knowing, and saying what exists and what does not. Households organise knowledge of reality itself: determining what constitutes existence, what tasks and duties are assigned, what origins and destinies are imagined, and how beings—human, nonhuman, animate, inanimate—are situated within broader hierarchies and thus structures of domination and subordination whereby 'desired' effects can be produced and extracted. As such, the household is not only a site of material and social reproduction, but also a site of metaphysical, epistemological, ontological, and political-economic re/production. Through households, concepts of value, duty, kinship, cosmology, and political order are generated and maintained—or sometimes, disrupted and transformed. In this sense, the household is a fundamental unit of world-making.
