ANTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mary Douglas, Exogamy

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH1001
• Professor: Neil Maclean

Document Summary

Building the house: planning requires > # time, gather material, collaboration, division of labour for common project, agreement does not necessarily mean homogeneity. Living in the house: process of sharing is also a process of transformation. Longhouse as a kind of whole community: aspects of our definition. Making a material expression of the identity of person, community and place: monsoon. Giving spatial and architectural form to the main social distinctions with the monsoon: gender and age. Mobilizing the skills and organizational powers of the community to plan for and make the monsoon. = integrated (all aspects integrate together to form a larger argument) = symbolic: places stand for people, identity, etc. = materiality: need to transform landscape in order to construct spaces. = share: similar beliefs and values (= both connecter and differentiator) Making the gardens and the long house. The realization of worldview in space is the explicit argument.