CONTENTS

List of illustrations page xiList of contributors xiii

1 Introduction 1Janet Carsten and Stephen Hugh-Jones

2 Houses and hierarchies in island Southeast Asia 47Roxana Waterson

3 The resurrection of the house amongst the Zafimaniryof Madagascar 69Maurice Bloch

4 The hearth-group, the conjugal couple and thesymbolism of the rice meal among the Kelabit ofSarawak 84Monica Janowski

5 Houses in Langkawi: stable structures or mobile homes? 105Janet Carsten

6 Having your house and eating it: houses and siblings inAra, South Sulawesi 129Thomas Gibson

7 The Lio House: building, category, idea, value 149Signe Howell

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8 Houses and hierarchy: the view from a SouthMoluccan society 170Susan McKinnon

9 Houses, places and people: community and continuityin Guiana 189Peter Riviere

10 The houses of the Mebengokre (Kayapo) of CentralBrazil - a new door to their social organization 206Vanessa Lea

11 Inside-out and back-to-front: the androgynous housein Northwest Amazonia 226Stephen Hugh-Jones

Notes 253Bibliography 270Index 287

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