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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461428303321

Titolo

Beyond the walls : new perspectives on the archaeology of historical households / / edited by Kevin R. Fogle, James A. Nyman, and Mary C. Beaudry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

ISBN

0-8130-6392-2

0-8130-5146-0

0-8130-5562-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Disciplina

306.850973

Soggetti

Households - United States - History

Cultural property - United States - History

Household archaeology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Households beyond the house: on the archaeology and materiality of historical households / Mary C. Beaudry -- Scalar analysis of early nineteenth-century household assemblages: focus on communities of the African Atlantic / Matthew Reeves -- Exploring household foodways in the North Carolina Piedmont, 1450-1710 / Ashley Peles -- Landschaft and place-making at George Washington's Ferry Farm / James A. Nyman and Brooke Kenline -- Ranch as 'Ohana: the role of ranching station households in the formation of the Hawaiian ranching community / Benjamin Barna -- Intimate landscapes and ideal households: nineteenth-century proslavery reforms on a South Carolina plantation / Kevin R. Fogle -- Households of the overseas Chinese in Aurora, Nevada / Emily Dale -- Traditions and tasks: household production and the internal economy at Dean Hall Plantation, South Carolina / Nicole Isenbarger and Andrew Agha -- The spooky entanglements of historical households / Charles R. Cobb.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection showcases the work of leading household archaeologists



and scholars studying domestic production and consumption patterns across a spectrum of time periods, areas, and cultures in North America.