Beyond Kinship : : Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies /

Beyond Kinship : : Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies / / ed. by Rosemary A. Joyce, Susan D. Gillespie.

Beyond Kinship brings together ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and cultural anthropologists for the first time in a common discussion of the social model of house societies proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss. While kinship theory has been central to the study of social organization, an alternative app...

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MitwirkendeR:
Cunningham, Clark E.,
Gillespie, Susan D.,
Joyce, Rosemary A.,
Kirch, Patrick V.,
Marshall, Yvonne,
McKinnon, Susan,
Sandstrom, Alan R.,
Tringham, Ruth,
Waterson, Roxana,
HerausgeberIn:
Gillespie, Susan D.,
Joyce, Rosemary A.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©2000
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 22 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Beyond Kinship
  • 2, Lévi-Strauss
  • 3. Toponymic Groups and House Organization
  • 4. Transformations of Nuu-chah-nulth Houses
  • 5. Temples as ‘‘Holy Houses’’
  • 6. The Continuous House
  • 7. Maya ‘‘Nested Houses’’
  • 8. The Tanimbarese Tavu
  • 9. House, Place, and Memory in Tana Toraja (Indonesia)
  • 10. Heirlooms and Houses
  • Notes
  • References Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index

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