Rice intimacies. Reflections on the ‘house’ in Upland Sulawesi and South China

In this article we intend to discuss “the house” both as an anthropological catego- ry and as a material reality from a comparative perspective. The study of human dwellings across cultures has always occupied the minds of social scientists. However, it was only a few decades ago that social scientists started to look at “houses” not just as constructions endowed with historical meanings and symbolic values, but also as a distinctive type of social formation. To these concerns we want to add a focus on “houses” as spaces of intimacy.