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. The concept was originally proposed by Claude Lévi-Strauss who called them "sociétés à maison".
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. The concept was originally proposed by Claude Lévi-Strauss who called them "sociétés à maison".
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