ISBN:
9780511607653
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages)
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DDC:
307.3/36
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
;
Indianer
;
Dwellings / Social aspects
;
Dwellings / Southeast Asia
;
Dwellings / South America
;
Kinship / Southeast Asia
;
Indians of South America / Kinship
;
Hausbau
;
Verwandtschaft
;
Wohnen
;
Haus
;
Ethnologie
;
Ethnosoziologie
;
Südostasien
;
Südostasien
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Wohnen
;
Verwandtschaft
;
Ethnologie
;
Wohnen
;
Hausbau
;
Ethnologie
;
Haus
;
Ethnosoziologie
;
Südostasien
;
Wohnen
;
Ethnosoziologie
Abstract:
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 houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast Asia and South America, exploring the interrelationships between buildings, people, and ideas. They reveal some of the ways in which houses can stand for social groups and serve as images of process and order
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511607653
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511607653
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