Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast

Herausgeber: Sobel, Elizabeth A; Ames, Kenneth A; Gahr, D Ann Trieu

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a central methodology for archaeologists interested in the social, political and economic organisation of chiefdoms and states, and a key theoretical and methological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 285
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 221mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781879621398
• ISBN-10: 1879621398
• Artikelnr.: 40622694

Autorenporträt

¿Elizabeth A. Sobel is a Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Missouri State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
D. Ann Trieu Gahr, Elizabeth A. Sobel, Kenneth M. Ames
Chapter 2. Thinking about Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast
Kenneth M. Ames
Chapter 3. Houses and Domestication on the Northwest Coast
Yvonne Marshall
Chapter 4. Architects to Ancestors: The Life Cycle of Plankhouses
D. Ann Trieu Gahr
Chapter 5. A Chief's House Speaks: Communicating Power on the Northern
Northwest Coast
Gary Coupland
Chapter 6. Temporality in Northwest Coast Households
Colin Grier
Chapter 7. Of a more Temporary Cast: Household Production at the Broken
Tops Site
David V. Ellis
Chapter 8. The Tsimshian Household through the Contact Period
Andrew Martindale
Chapter 9. Household Prestige and Exchange in Northwest Coast Societies: A
Case Study from the Lower Columbia River Valley
Elizabeth A. Sobel
Chapter 10. Households at Ozette
Stephan R. Samuels
Chapter 11. Formation Processes of a Lower Columbia River Plankhouse Site
Cameron McPherson Smith
Chapter 12. Households and Production on the Pacific Coast: The Northwest
Coast and California in Comparative Perspective
Jeanne E. Arnold