house society
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Etymology
Translation of French société à maison, coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Noun
house society (plural house societies)
- (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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