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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824752403321

Titolo

Household chores and household choices : theorizing the domestic sphere in historical archaeology / / edited by Kerri S. Barile and Jamie C. Brandon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8173-8164-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BarileKerri S

BrandonJamie C

Disciplina

640/.973

Soggetti

Historic sites - United States

Material culture - United States

Landscapes - Social aspects - United States - History

Households - United States - History

Families - United States - History

Sex role - United States - History

Archaeology and history - United States

Feminist archaeology - United States

Archaeology - Methodology

United States Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

5. "Living Symbols of their Lifelong Struggles": In Search of the Home and Household in the Heart of Freedman's Town, Dallas, TexasPART II. A SENSE OF SPACE; 6. Finding the Space Between Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: The Archaeology of Nested Households; 7. Hegemony within the Household;  The Perspective from a South Carolina Plantation; 8. A Historic Pay-for-Housework Community Household: The Cambridge Cooperative Housekeeping Society; 9. Fictive Kin in the Mountains: The Paternalistic Metaphor and Households in a California Logging Camp; PART III. A SENSE OF BEING

10. The Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Nuevo Santander Rancho Households11. Reconstructing Domesticity and Segregating



Households: The Intersections of Gender and Race in the Postbellum South; 12. Working-Class Households as Sites of Social Change; PART IV. MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL: COMMENTARIES ON THE HOUSEHOLD; 13. What Difference Does Feminist Theory Make in Researching Households? A Commentary; 14. Doing the Housework: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Households; References; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Presents a variety of archaeological case studies on daily life in a wide range of locations and circumstances. Because archaeology seeks to understand past societies, the concepts of ""home,""  ""house,"" and ""household"" are important. Yet they can be the most elusive of ideas. Are they the space occupied by a nuclear family or by an extended one? Is it a built structure or the sum of its contents? Is it a shelter against the elements, a gendered space, or an ephemeral place tied to emotion? We somehow believe that the household is a basic unit of culture but have fai