About the House

About the House

Lévi-Strauss and Beyond

by Janet Carsten, Stephen Hugh-Jones, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology Janet Carsten

300 pages· 1995· ISBN 9780521479530
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Exploring interrelationships, this collection analyzes "house" systems in Southeast Asia and South America. It is inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of Medieval Europe were the best-known examples of a widespread social institution.

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