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- Title
Naming the house and naming the land: Kinship and social groups in highland Poland.
- Authors
Pine, Frances
- Abstract
Analyzes the importance of the house, both as the core of social and economic identity and as a metaphor for kinship, in the Gorale society of Southwestern Poland. Physical arrangement of the traditional Gorale house; Gorale rituals and symbolic acts associated with the house; House's maintenance of a shifting power relationship with the state.
- Subjects
POLAND; DOMESTIC architecture; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1996, Vol 2, Issue 3, p443
- ISSN
1359-0987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3034897