Before revision: In anthropology, a house society is a society where kinship and political relations are organized around membership in corporately-organized dwellings rather than around descent groups or lineages, as in the "House of Windsor".
After revision: 260px|Three tongkonan noble "Houses" in a Torajan village, Sulawesi, IndonesiaIn anthropology, a house society is a society where kinship and political relations are organized around membership in corporately-organized dwellings rather than around descent groups or lineages, as in the "House of Windsor".