About the House : Levi-Strauss and Beyond

Name: About the House
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521479530
Price: 8000 KES
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ISBN: 9780521479530

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0521479533

ISBN-13 9780521479530

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 4th, 1995

Print length 316 Pages

Weight 482 grams

Dimensions 23.00 x 16.30 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: South America Cultural studies Social groups, communities and identities Cultural studies Social groups Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology

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Inspired by the seminal work of Lévi-Strauss on the house as a social institution, the contributors to this volume analyse 'house' systems in Southeast Asia and South America, exploring the interrelationships between buildings, people and ideas, and revealing ways in which houses can stand for social groups and serve as images of process and order.

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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