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Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies

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The key of interpretation proposed by Levi-Strauss makes it possible to consider the House as a durable institution that makes use of multiple strategies for the recruitment of its members. He wrote: "In New Zealand as in Madagascar, the house is built, looking forward, through marriage-opportunity of choice between race (with relatives) or earth (with neighbors) - and retrospectively through the funeral, namely the right to the grave, along with ancestral land genealogical chain, where, because of being gathered, the dead lose their individuality agnatha, in-laws or similar".

Joyce and Gillespie reject "House society" as a stage in the social evolution, but they reinforce the importance of these studies to investigate how the House can play a major role in the transition from a kinship-based social structure to a political, economic and religious aristocratic type.