Household Chores and Household Choices: Theorizing the Domestic Sphere in Historical ArchaeologyKerri S. Barile, Jamie C. Brandon University of Alabama Press, 2004 M06 25 - 312 pages Discusses the concepts of “home,” “house,” and “household” in past societies In an effort to clarify these questions, this volume examines a broad range of households—a Spanish colonial rancho along the Rio Grande, Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in Tennessee, plantations in South Carolina and the Bahamas, a Colorado coal camp, a frontier Arkansas farm, a Freedman's Town eventually swallowed by Dallas, and plantations across the South—to define and theorize domestic space. The essays devolve from many disciplines, but all approach households from an archaeological perspective, looking at landscape analysis, excavations, reanalyzed collections, or archival records. Together, the essays present a body of knowledge that takes the identification, analysis, and interpretation of households far beyond current conceptions. |
Contents
Analysis of Household and Family at a Spanish Colonial | 15 |
Figures | 19 |
Redefining the Enslaved Household | 33 |
Copyright | |
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