A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece: An Anthropological Approach (Cambridge Studies in Archaeology) - Hardcover

Souvatzi, Stella G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521836891 ISBN 13: 9780521836890

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 sciences and the synthesis of many anthropological, historical, and sociological examples. It reverses the view of the household as passive, ahistorical, and stable, showing it instead to be active, dynamic, and continually shifting.

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Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Stella G. Souvatzi is Lecturer in Hellenic Civilization at the Hellenic Open University in Athens, Greece. A scholar of Neolithic Greece, she has conducted extensive fieldwork in Greece and has received support from the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. She has published widely on households, houses and communities in the British School at Athens Studies and in several edited collections.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521836891
• ISBN 13: 9780521836890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332