Rosemary A. Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coeditor of Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica and of Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, which is available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Susan D. Gillespie teaches anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History.

• Contents and ContributorsForeword-Clark E. CunninghamOpening Up the House: An Introduction-Susan D. GillespieLÉvi-Strauss: Maison and SociÉtÉ Maisons-Susan D. GillespieToponymic Groups and House Organization Among the Nahuas of Northern Veracruz, Mexico-Alan R. SandstromTransformations of Nuu-chah-nulth Houses-Yvonne MarshallTemples as "Holy Houses": The Transformation of Ritual Architecture in Traditional Polynesian Societies-Patrick V. KirchThe Continuous House: A View from the Deep Past-Ruth TringhamMaya "Nested Houses": The Ritual Construction of Place-Susan D. GillespieThe Tanimbarese Tavu: The Ideology of Growth and the Material Configurations of Hierarchy in an Indonesian Society-Susan McKinnonHouse, Place, and Memory in Tana Toraja (Indonesia)-Roxana WatersonHeirlooms and Houses: Materiality and Social Memory-Rosemary A. Joyce

"An impressive set of papers that must be read by everyone concerned with integrating material objects into their analyses of complex cognitive aspects of culture. This sublime collection reflects the cutting edge of a mature discipline."-Journal of American Folklore"LÉvi-Strauss's latter-day thinking on houses and house societies offers an antikinship kinship theory that puts a new slant on time, family, and hierarchy. Skillfully edited by Joyce and Gillespie, the volume Beyond Kinship illustrates the breadth of investigations into history, people, and place that LÉvi Strauss's formulation makes possible."-Current Anthropology