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Introduction | |
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The Scope of Inquiry | |
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An Approach to Households | |
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Houses and Consumer Behavior in Households | |
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Canonical and Indexical Communication and the Built Environment | |
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Houses, Communication, and the World of Goods | |
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Theory versus Reality | |
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Communication and the Social Reproduction of Households | |
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A Comparative Method | |
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Introductory Comments | |
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A Graphical Method Based on Floor Plans | |
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Floor Plans as Graphs | |
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Measures of Scale, Integration, and Complexity | |
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Selection of the Sample of Houses and Communities | |
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Scale, Integration, and Complexity: A Preliminary Comparison across Regions | |
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Scale, Integration, and Complexity Illustrated | |
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Household Social Reproduction and the Canonical Communication of Habitus | |
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China | |
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Java | |
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Japan | |
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Thailand | |
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Vietnam | |
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South Asia | |
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Southwest Asia | |
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Mesoamerica | |
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Explaining Variation in Canonical Communication | |
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Results of the Analysis | |
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Interhousehold Canonical Communication | |
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Additional Notes on Household Social Reproductive Strategy | |
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Household Social Reproduction and Curatorial Consumption | |
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Indexical and Social Boundary Communication | |
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Social Boundary Communication | |
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Indexical Communication | |
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Household Economic Strategies and Indexical Communication | |
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A Macroregional Approach | |
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Cores and Peripheries in Macroregions | |
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An Evaluation of a Macroregional Theory | |
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"Closed" and "Open" Communities | |
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Core versus Periphery Houses and Households | |
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Comments on Core-Periphery Distinctions in the House Data Set | |
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Household Composition and Social Reproductive Strategy | |
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Network Interactions versus Market Structure | |
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Evaluating the Model | |
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Conclusion | |
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Steps toward a Method of Wealth Comparison | |
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Cross-Cultural Analysis and Peasant Studies | |
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Housing, Social History, and the Political Economy of Complex Societies - A Hypothesis for Future Consideration | |
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Appendixes | |
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References | |
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Index | |