Beyond kinship : social and material reproduction in house societies

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Beyond kinship : social and material reproduction in house societies

edited by Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie ; foreword by Clark E. Cunningham

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2000

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780812217230

Description

Beyond Kinship brings together ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and cultural anthropologists for the first time in a common discussion of the social model of house societies proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss. While kinship theory has been central to the study of social organization, an alternative approach has emerged-that of seeing the "house" both as a physical and symbolic structure and a principle of social organization. The house stands as a model social formation that is distinguished by its attention to a number of material domains (land, the dwelling, ritual and nonritual objects). As the essays in this volume make clear, the focus on material culture and on place contributes to the ongoing convergence of anthropology and history and helps erase the artificial distinctions between prehistory and history. Contributions to the volume offer significant new interpretations of primary data as well as reconsidering classic ethnographic material. Beyond Kinship crosses the boundaries within anthropology-not only between cultural anthropology and archaeology but between structural-symbolic and materialist approaches and between American and British schools of anthropology; it is intended to advance the fruitful dialogue now taking place within the field.

Table of Contents

Contents and Contributors Foreword -Clark E. Cunningham Opening Up the House: An Introduction -Susan D. Gillespie Levi-Strauss: Maison and Societe Maisons -Susan D. Gillespie Toponymic Groups and House Organization Among the Nahuas of Northern Veracruz, Mexico -Alan R. Sandstrom Transformations of Nuu-chah-nulth Houses -Yvonne Marshall Temples as "Holy Houses": The Transformation of Ritual Architecture in Traditional Polynesian Societies -Patrick V. Kirch The Continuous House: A View from the Deep Past -Ruth Tringham Maya "Nested Houses": The Ritual Construction of Place -Susan D. Gillespie The Tanimbarese Tavu: The Ideology of Growth and the Material Configurations of Hierarchy in an Indonesian Society -Susan McKinnon House, Place, and Memory in Tana Toraja (Indonesia) -Roxana Waterson Heirlooms and Houses: Materiality and Social Memory -Rosemary A. Joyce
Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780812235470

Description

Beyond Kinship brings together ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and cultural anthropologists for the first time in a common discussion of the social model of house societies proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss. While kinship theory has been central to the study of social organization, an alternative approach has emerged--that of seeing the "house" both as a physical and symbolic structure and a principle of social organization. The house stands as a model social formation that is distinguished by its attention to a number of material domains (land, the dwelling, ritual and nonritual objects). As the essays in this volume make clear, the focus on material culture and on place contributes to the ongoing convergence of anthropology and history and helps erase the artificial distinctions between prehistory and history. Contributions to the volume offer significant new interpretations of primary data as well as reconsidering classic ethnographic material. Beyond Kinship crosses the boundaries within anthropology--not only between cultural anthropology and archaeology but between structural--symbolic and materialist approaches and between American and British schools of anthropology; it is intended to advance the fruitful dialogue now taking place within the field.

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  • NCID
    BA4744824X
  • ISBN
    • 0812235479
    • 0812217233
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Philadelphia, Penn.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 269 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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