English Explanatory Dictionary

house society

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

house society house societies

Etymology

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

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