Houses and Households: A Comparative StudySpringer Science & Business Media, 1994 - 272 pagine A growing interest in households is found among many archaeologists and cultural anthropologists, but these disciplines require improved methods, theories, and comparative knowledge to advance the aims of household research. Many questions about ancient and contemporary societies will be left unanswered until there is a more developed understanding of how households influence, and are influenced by, the larger society. Houses and Households expands on and makes more systematic the comparative and cross-cultural approach to the study of households, by investigating the interactions between household behavior and the domestic built environment in a variety of world areas. Focusing on peasant households, this practical volume presents a large comparative data base derived from published ethnographic and architectural reports from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, India, Nepal, Egypt, and Mesoamerica. Author Richard E. Blanton proposes new methods for comparative analyses of houses and uses these methods, along with the community ethnographic data, to develop new and evaluate current household theories. Houses and Households is a major contribution to the understanding of cross-cultural and intracultural variation in households and house form, including features such as size of the house, spatial complexity, use of space, decoration, symbolic expression, and costliness. These formal properties are then analyzed in light of behavior related to, among others, gender relations, household decision making, and consumer behavior. The theoretical framework presented and evaluated - developed from a nonverbal communication approach - perceives house form as an outcome of the social and economic strategies of households found in varying community, regional, and macroregional settings. |
Sommario
THE SCOPE OF INQUIRY | 4 |
AN APPROACH TO HOUSEHOLDS | 5 |
HOUSES AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN HOUSEHOLDS | 7 |
CANONICAL AND INDEXICAL COMMUNICATION AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT | 8 |
HOUSES COMMUNICATION AND THE WORLD OF GOODS | 13 |
THEORY VERSUS REALITY | 18 |
COMMUNICATION AND THE SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF HOUSEHOLDS | 19 |
A Comparative Method | 21 |
VIETNAM | 90 |
SOUTH ASIA | 91 |
SOUTHWEST ASIA | 95 |
MESOAMERICA | 101 |
EXPLAINING VARIATION IN CANONICAL COMMUNICATION | 102 |
RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS | 107 |
INTERHOUSEHOLD CANONICAL COMMUNICATION | 110 |
HOUSEHOLD SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND CURATORIAL CONSUMPTION | 112 |
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS | 23 |
A GRAPHICAL METHOD BASED ON FLOOR PLANS | 24 |
FLOOR PLANS AS GRAPHS | 26 |
MEASURES OF SCALE INTEGRATION AND COMPLEXITY | 31 |
Integration | 32 |
Complexity | 33 |
SELECTION OF THE SAMPLE OF HOUSES AND COMMUNITIES | 37 |
China | 42 |
Japan Vietnam Thailand and Java | 44 |
South Asia | 45 |
Southwest Asia | 46 |
Mesoamerica | 49 |
A PRELIMINARY COMPARISON ACROSS REGIONS | 50 |
Scale | 51 |
Integration | 55 |
Complexity | 58 |
AND COMPLEXITY ILLUSTRATED | 64 |
Household Social Reproduction and the Canonical Communication of Habitus | 77 |
CHINA | 80 |
JAVA | 88 |
JAPAN | 89 |
Indexical and Social Boundary Communication | 115 |
SOCIAL BOUNDARY COMMUNICATION | 124 |
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC STRATEGIES AND INDEXICAL COMMUNICATION | 140 |
A Macroregional Approach | 149 |
CORES AND PERIPHERIES IN MACROREGIONS | 152 |
AN EVALUATION OF A MACROREGIONAL THEORY | 154 |
CLOSED AND OPEN COMMUNITIES | 157 |
CORE VERSUS PERIPHERY HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDS | 161 |
COMMENTS ON COREPERIPHERY DISTINCTIONS IN THE HOUSE DATA SET | 169 |
AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY | 172 |
NETWORK INTERACTIONS VERSUS MARKET STRUCTURE | 176 |
EVALUATING THE MODEL | 179 |
Conclusion | 183 |
CROSSCULTURAL ANALYSIS AND PEASANT STUDIES | 190 |
HOUSING SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES A HYPOTHESIS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION | 192 |
III Southwest Asia Main Series | 193 |
Appendixes | 199 |
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