About the House
Subtitle: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
Contributors: Janet Carsten (Editor); Stephen Hugh-Jones (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 26, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521479530
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Social groups & communities; Sociology; Dwellings; Archaeology / Anthropology; Southeast Asia; Social Science; Social aspects; South America; South East Asia; Kinship; Anthropology - Cultural; Domestic; Social History; Architecture-Domestic; Dwellings--Social aspects; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science-Social History; Anthropology - General; Asia, Southeastern
First sentence: FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANIST, Levi-Strauss's concept of the 'house society' has been one of the most stimulating and provocative to emerge in recent years (Levi-Strauss 1983a: 163-76, 1987).