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- French · calque ofsociété à maison
- English todayhouse society
Calque of French société à maison, coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
house society
Today it means: A society where kinship and political relations are organized around membership in corporately-organized dwellings rather than around descent groups or lineages. Full definition →
French société à maison