house society

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Etymology[edit]

Translation of French société à maison, coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Noun[edit]

house society (plural house societies)

  1. (anthropology) A society where kinship and political relations are organized around membership in corporately-organized dwellings rather than around descent groups or lineages.

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