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E-grāmata: Archaeology of Domestic Architecture and the Human Use of Space [Taylor & Francis e-book]

  • Formāts: 394 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2015
  • Izdevniecība: Left Coast Press Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9781315433974
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  • Formāts: 394 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2015
  • Izdevniecība: Left Coast Press Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9781315433974
"This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space. It will be a useful synthesis for scholars and an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in archaeology and architecture. The book: covers the relationship of architectural decisions of ancient peoples with our understanding of social and cultural institutions; includes cases from every continent and all time periods--from the Paleolithic of Europe to present-day African villages; is ideal for the growing number of courses on household archaeology, social archaeology, and historical and vernacular architecture"--

Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space. It will be a useful synthesis for scholars and an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in archaeology and architecture.


This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space. It will be a useful synthesis for scholars and an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in archaeology and architecture. The book
-covers the relationship of architectural decisions of ancient peoples with our understanding of social and cultural institutions;
-includes cases from every continent and all time periods-- from the Paleolithic of Europe to present-day African villages;
-is ideal for the growing number of courses on household archaeology, social archaeology, and historical and vernacular architecture.
List of Illustrations
8(2)
Acknowledgments 10(1)
Chapter 1 Social Archaeology and the Study of Architecture
11(14)
Introduction: Foundations
11(1)
Social Archaeology and the Study of Architecture
12(6)
About This Book
18(7)
Section I Initial Foundations: Theories and Methodologies in the Archaeology of Architecture
Chapter 2 Choice Locations: The Power and Meaning of (First) Place(s)
25(14)
First Explorations: The Archaeology of Landscape
26(2)
Earliest Settlements: Practical Matters
28(2)
Settling the Sacred Landscape
30(3)
Settling with Family: Ancestral Landscapes
33(5)
Conclusion: Landscapes Untouched
38(1)
Chapter 3 Reading the House: Populations, Proxemics, and the Syntax of Space
39(30)
How Many People? Estimating Ancient Populations
40(7)
Semiotics: Syntax and the Built Environment
47(4)
Proxemics: Human Spatial Organization and Architecture
51(6)
Limiting Space: Privacy and Access
57(9)
Conclusion
66(3)
Section II Scales of Architecture: From Mobile Home to Cityscape
Chapter 4 The Mobile Architecture of Hunter-Gatherers and Nomadic Pastoralists
69(34)
The Mobile Life of Hunter-Gatherers
69(4)
Interpreting Social Institutions from Hunter-Gatherer Architecture
73(10)
The Mobile Life of Nomadic Pastoralists
83(3)
Interpreting Social Institutions from Pastoral Nomadic Architecture
86(15)
Conclusion
101(2)
Chapter 5 From First House to City Suburb
103(38)
Settlement and Its Impact
104(7)
Tent to House: First Settled Homes
111(14)
From Sedentism to City
125(7)
Urbanism: Living in the Suburbs
132(6)
Conclusion
138(3)
Section III Houses as Vessels of Social Institutions
Chapter 6 House Societies and the Identification of Kinship, Family, and Marriage in the Architectural Record
141(22)
House Society
141(9)
Marriage, Kinship, and Family
150(11)
Conclusion
161(2)
Chapter 7 Household Archaeology and Architecture: Socioeconomy and Beyond
163(30)
Origins and Development of the Household Archaeology Field
164(3)
Household Archaeology and the Architectural Record
167(1)
Household Archaeology, Architecture, and Socioeconomy
168(14)
Households: Determining Rank, Status, and Wealth Differentiation
182(4)
The Social Household
186(5)
Conclusion
191(2)
Chapter 8 The Gendered House
193(28)
Gendered Spaces
194(1)
The Sexual Division of Labor: Gendered Work Spaces
195(6)
The Architecture of Sexual Seclusion and Segregation
201(11)
Gender and Status
212(6)
Conclusion
218(3)
Section IV Symbolism and the Built Environment
Chapter 9 Architecture and Power
221(28)
Locating Power Structures in the Archaeological Record
221(6)
Expressions of Power in the Domestic Sphere
227(7)
Power beyond the House: The Public Sphere
234(6)
Architecture and the Transfer of Power
240(7)
Conclusion
247(2)
Chapter 10 The Symbolic and Sacred: The House and Beyond
249(42)
Ancient Humans, Ancient Religion
250(1)
Beyond (?) the House
251(8)
Rituals and Sacred Spaces in the Dwelling
259(7)
The Ancestral House
266(8)
The House as Embodiment of Cosmos and Ritual Landscape
274(15)
Conclusion
289(2)
Postscript: Shingles on a Rooftop 291(2)
References 293(86)
Index 379(15)
About the Author 394
Sharon R. Steadman is Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator for the International Studies Program, and Director of the Rozanne M. Brooks Museum, all at SUNY Cortland, USA. In addition to her work at the university, Steadman is the editorial assistant of Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research and Director of the Prehistoric Project at Cadir Hoyuk, Turkey. She is author of the leading textbook on Archaeology of Religion and numerous research articles.