About the house Lévi-Strauss and beyond

The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble house...

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Weitere Verfasser: Carsten, Janet (HerausgeberIn), Hugh-Jones, Stephen 1945- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Houses and hierarchies in island Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson
  • The resurrection of the house amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch
  • The hearth-group, the conjugal couple and the symbolism of the rice meal among the Kelabit of Sarawak / Monica Janowski
  • Houses in Langkawi : stable structures or mobile homes? / Janet Carsten
  • Having your house and eating it : houses and siblings in Ara, South Sualwesi / Thomas Gibson
  • The Lio House : building, category, idea, value / Signe Howell
  • Houses and hierarchy : the view from a South Moluccan society / Susan McKinnon
  • Houses, places and people : community and continuity in Guiana / Peter Rivière
  • The houses of the Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil : a new door to their social organization / Vanessa Lea
  • Inside-out and back-to-front : the androgynous house in Northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones