Lévi-Straussův koncept „společností založených na domech“ a jeho aplikace ve výzkumu společností v jihovýchodní Evropě
Lévi-Strauss’s concept of the “house-based society” and its application to research on Southeastern European societies

Summary/Abstract: In the 1980s, Claude Lévi-Strauss criticized those anthropological studies that use kinship as a basis for understanding the interrelationships of observed individuals. As a supplement to the concept of perceived kinship via maternal or paternal lineage, he offered the concept of “houses” as a basic unit of organization. Within this concept, the social characteristics of the “house” as a basic unit of an individual’s identification are inseparable from the material (material house) and semantic (name connected with the house) levels. This paper presents a group of studies based on fieldwork in Southeastern Europe focusing on the “house” as a social and semantic unit, and tries to thus provide the Czech academic environment with a chance to receive inspiration from this perspective.

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