About the House : Levi-Strauss and Beyond Hardback
Edited by Carsten Janet Carsten, Hugh-Jones Stephen Hugh-Jones
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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 Levi-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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:314 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/05/1995
- ISBN:9780521474214
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:314 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/05/1995
- ISBN:9780521474214