Abstract
The concept of “configuration of houses”, developed by Louis Marcelin and recognized for its importance by several authors interested in the study of the house and the family, also has much to yield when it is revisited and transformed, incorporating dimensions that, if not entirely absent in the works of Marcelin, were less prominent there. In this article, we discuss two ways in which such a transformation can be accomplished. First, we emphasize the interest in highlighting the issue of the distance between existing houses in a configuration, especially for those who, like the author of this paper, are also interested in the issue of mobility. Second, we argue that not only can “houses” be articulated in such configurations, but also that such sets of relationships can incorporate places and spaces that our own interlocutors conceive as being of another nature.
Keywords:
Configuration of houses; Mobility; Vicinage