Description
Book Synopsis"Skillfully edited by Joyce and Gillespie, the volume Beyond Kinship illustrates the breadth of investigations into history, people, and place that Levi Strauss's formulation makes possible."-Current Anthropology
Trade Review"An impressive set of papers that must be read by everyone concerned with integrating material objects into their analyses of complex cognitive aspects of culture. This sublime collection reflects the cutting edge of a mature discipline." *
Journal of American Folklore *
"Lévi-Strauss's latter-day thinking on houses and house societies offers an antikinship kinship theory that puts a new slant on time, family, and hierarchy. 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 *
Table of ContentsContents and Contributors
Foreword
—Clark E. Cunningham
Opening Up the House: An Introduction
—Susan D. Gillespie
Lévi-Strauss: Maison and Société 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
