The east wall from the ‘male’ outside is necessarily the west wall from the ‘female’ inside
"He suggested, supported by proverbs such as ‘Man is the lamp of the outside and woman the lamp of the inside’ (1970a: 160), that the Kabyle defined the external world as male and the internal world as female and as a result a male reading of the house would be in binary opposition to a female reading:
'whereas, for the man, the house is less a place one goes into than a place from which one goes out, the woman can only confer upon these two movements and the different definitions of the house which form an integral part with them, an inverse importance and meaning, since movement towards the outside consists above all for her of acts of expulsion and it is her specific role to be responsible for all movement towards the inside, that is to say, from the threshold towards the fireplace.' (Pierre Bourdieu, "The Berber House or the World Reversed")
It followed, Bourdieu suggested, that the east wall from the ‘male’ outside is necessarily the west wall from the ‘female’ inside and, likewise, the west wall from the ‘male’ outside was the east wall from the ‘female’ inside." (Helena Webster, Bourdieu For Architects)
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Among scholars, you can "read" a house by analyzing it from every possible perspective—architectural, societal, functional, esthetic, etc. I think that's what Bourdieu meant by it. Webster's comment seems to report Bordieu's defining of the real physical perspective that the Kabyle employ.
- Among scholars, you can "read" a house by analyzing it from every possible perspective—architectural, societal, functional, esthetic, etc.
- I think that's what Bourdieu meant by it.
- Webster's comment seems to report Bordieu's defining of the real physical perspective that the Kabyle employ.
- I, a male American, call the west wall of a house the one that the sun shines on in the afternoon.
- Apparently, a Kabyle man would call it the east wall because that is the one he sees facing east outside the house.
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Among scholars, you can "read" a house by analyzing it from every possible perspective—architectural, societal, functional, esthetic, etc. I think that's what Bourdieu meant by it. Webster's comment seems to report Bordieu's defining of the real physical perspective that the Kabyle employ. I, a male American, call the west wall of a house the one that the sun shines on in the afternoon. Appare
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