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Title Beyond kinship : social and material reproduction in house societies / edited by Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie ; foreword by Clark E. Cunningham
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2000

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Contents Foreword / Clark E. Cunningham -- 1. Beyond Kinship: An Introduction / Susan D. Gillespie -- 2. Levi-Strauss: Maison and Societe a Maisons / Susan D. Gillespie -- 3. Toponymic Groups and House Organization: The Nahuas of Northern Veracruz, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom -- 4. Transformations of Nuu-chah-nulth Houses / Yvonne Marshall -- 5. Temples'as "Holy Houses": The Transformation of Ritual Architecture in Traditional Polynesian Societies / Patrick V. Kirch -- 6. Continuous House: A View from the Deep Past / Ruth Tringham -- 7. Maya "Nested Houses": The Ritual Construction of Place / Susan D. Gillespie -- 8. Tanimbarese Tavu: The Ideology of Growth and the Material Configurations of Houses and Hierarchy in an Indonesian Society / Susan McKinnon -- 9. House, Place, and Memory in Tana Toraja (Indonesia) / Roxana Waterson -- 10. Heirlooms and Houses: Materiality and Social Memory / Rosemary A. Joyce
Summary ""Skillfully edited by Joyce and Gillespie, the volume Beyond Kinship illustrates the breadth of investigations into history, people, and place that Lévi Strauss's formulation makes possible.""--Current Anthropology
Subject Dwellings.
Vernacular architecture.
Kinship.
Material cultur
dwellings.
vernacular architecture.
kinship.
ARCHITECTURE -- Vernacular.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Dwellings
Kinship
Vernacular architecture
Form Electronic book
Author Joyce, Rosemary A., 1956-
Gillespie, Susan D., 1952-
ISBN 9781512821628
1512821624