Sharon R Steadman

Archaeology of Domestic Architecture and the Human Use of Space

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781611322835
• ISBN-10: 1611322839
• Artikelnr.: 41789258

Autorenporträt

Sharon R Steadman

Inhaltsangabe

1: Social Archaeology and the Study of Architecture
I: Initial Foundations: Theories and Methodologies in the Archaeology of Architecture
2: Choice Locations: The Power and Meaning of (First) Place(s)
3: Reading the House: Populations, Proxemics, and the Syntax of Space
II: Scales of Architecture: From Mobile Home to Cityscape
4: The Mobile Architecture of Hunter-Gatherers and Nomadic Pastoralists
5: From First House to City Suburb
III: Houses as Vessels of Social Institutions
6: House Societies and the Identification of Kinship, Family, and Marriage in the Architectural Record
7: Household Archaeology and Architecture: Socioeconomy and Beyond
8: The Gendered House
IV: Symbolism and the Built Environment
9: Architecture and Power
10: The Symbolic and the Sacred: The House and Beyond
Postscript Shingles on a Rooftop