Abstract
The Lévi-Strauss' maison and the Wixarika « Great Houses » Following the proposals formulated by Claude Lévi-Strauss in the second edition of his The the Masks, the concept of « maison (- » is a useful analytical tool for the social and ceremonial organization of the Huichol Indians from Jalisco and Nayarit, Mexico, — specially the so-called tukipas or callihueyes (« the Great Houses ») of this group. Here, a territorial unit, which is a subdivision of the indigenous communities founded during Colonial times, is combined with a cognatic kinship-organization, members of which believe to be descendants of common ancestors, and with ceremonial centers showing an architecture of prehispanic tradition, full of cosmological symbols, as well as a complex religious cargo- hierarchy.
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