Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece An Anthropological Approach

Name: Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece An Anthropological Approach
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ISBN: 9780521836890

ISBN-10: 0521836891

ISBN-13: 9780521836890

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stella G. Souvatzi

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The study of households and everyday life is increasingly recognized as fundamental in social archeological analysis. This volume is the first to address the household as a process and as a conceptual and analytical means through which we can interpret social organization from the bottom up. Using detailed case studies from Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi examines how the household is defined socially, culturally, and historically; she discusses household and community, variability, production and reproduction, individual and collective agency, identity, change, complexity, and integration. Her study is enriched by an in-depth discussion of the framework for the household in the social…

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List price: $89.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 332
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.738




The household in the social sciences



The household as process in a social archaeology



The Neolithic of Greece



The ideal and the real: the examples of Early Neolithic Nea Nikomedeia and Middle Neolithic Sesklo



Complexity is not only about hierarchy: Late Neolithic Dimini, a detailed case study in household organisation



Homogeneity or diversity? Households as variable processes



Evolution or contingency? Households as transitional processes



Household and beyond: implications and prospects for social archaeology