Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space

by Parker Pearson,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415157438
• ISBN10: 0415157439
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-05-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world; understanding the use of space is fundamental to archaeological inquiry.Architecture and Orderdraws on the work of archaeologists, social theorists and architects to explore the way in which people relate to the architecture which surrounds them. The contributors discuss the development of an archaeological language used to describe architecture's symbolic use of space and to further define the discipline's interaction with not only architecture but also anthropology. Topics discussed include Neolithic houses and tombs; perceptions of architecture, space and time; defining domestic space in the bronze age; women in Greek households; the Roman domestic setting; Swahili architecture; and spatial order and psychiatric disorder.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Ordering the World: Perceptions of Architecture, Space and Time	p. 1
Architecture and Order: Spatial Representation and Archaeology	p. 38
Architecture and Meaning: the Example of Neolithic Houses and Tombs	p. 73
Defining Domestic Space in the Bronze Age of Southern Britain	p. 87
Separation or Seclusion? Towards an Archaeological Approach to Investigating Women in the Greek Household in the Fifth to Third Centuries Bc	p. 98
The Spatiality of the Roman Domestic Setting: an Interpretation of Symbolic Content	p. 113
Swahili Architecture, Space and Social Structure	p. 147
Ordering Houses, Creating Narratives	p. 170
Spatial Order and Psychiatric Disorder	p. 178
The Temporal Structuring of Settlement Space Among the Dogon of Mali: an Ethnoarchaeological Study	p. 196
Order Without Architecture: Functional, Social and Symbolic Dimensions in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Organization	p. 217
Index	p. 244
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