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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barile, Kerri S.

Brandon, Jamie C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic sites--United States.

Historic sites.

Material culture--United States.

Material culture.

Landscapes--Social aspects--United States--History.

Landscapes.

Households--United States--History.

Households.

Families--United States--History.

Families.

Sex role--United States--History.

Sex role.

Archaeology and history--United States.

Archaeology and history.

Feminist archaeology--United States.

Feminist archaeology.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

United States--Antiquities.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8173-8164-3

OCLC:

427509622