| Description |
xiv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Janet Carsten and Stephen Hugh-Jones -- 2. Houses and hierarchies in island Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson -- 3. The resurrection of the house amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- 4. The hearth-group, the conjugal couple and the symbolism of the rice meal among the Kelabit of Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- 5. Houses in Langkawi: stable structures or mobile homes? / Janet Carsten -- 6. Having your house and eating it: houses and siblings in Ara, South Sulawesi / Thomas Gibson -- 7. The Lio House: building, category, idea, value / Signe Howell -- 8. Houses and hierarchy: the view from a South Moluccan society / Susan McKinnon --9. Houses, places and people: community and continuity in Guiana / Peter Riviere -- 10. The houses of the Mebengokre (Kayapo) of Central Brazil - a new door to their social organization / Vanessa Lea -- 11. Inside-out and back-to-front: the androgynous house in Northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones |
| Analysis |
Housing Sociology |
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South America |
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South-East Asia |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-286) and index |
| Subject |
Dwellings -- Social aspects.
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Dwellings -- Southeast Asia.
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Dwellings -- South America.
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Home.
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Indians of South America -- Kinship.
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Kinship -- Southeast Asia.
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| Author |
Carsten, Janet.
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Hugh-Jones, Stephen, 1945-
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| LC no. |
94026899 |
| ISBN |
0521474213 (hardback) |
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0521479533 (paperback) |
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