The Social archaeology of houses
Title:
The Social archaeology of houses
Author:
Samson, Ross, editor.
ISBN:
9780748602902
Physical Description:
v, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contents:
The living house : signifying continuity / Douglass W. Bailey -- Social inequality on Bulgarian tells and the Varna problem / John Chapman -- Comment on Chapman : some cautionary notes on the application of spatial measures to prehistoric settlements / Frank E. Brown -- The late neolithic house in Orkney / Colin Richards -- Domestic organisation and gender relations in Iron Age and Romano-British households / Richard Hingley -- Romano-British villas and the social construction of space / Eleanor Scott -- Comment on Eleanor Scott's 'Romano-British villas and the social construction of space' / Ross Samson -- The feudal construction of space : power and domination in the nucleated village / Tom Saunders -- The rise and fall of tower-houses in post-reformation Scotland / Ross Samson -- The Englishman's home and its study / Matthew Johnson -- Analysing small building plans : a morphological approach / Frank E. Brown.
Abstract:
This book deals with the problems that are encountered by archaeologists when reconstructing social history from domestic architecture. Often faced with little more than the remains of foundations or, at best, 'mute' houses, archaeologists have adopted social theories drawn from architects and sociologists. Such theories are here applied in a series of case studies which cover examples taken from ancient and modern housing. All the main schools of social theory are covered, including feminism, marxism, structuralism and structuration theory. The ideas developed by Henry Glassie, Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson are also explored.
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