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Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast / ed. by 
Elizabeth A. Sobel, Kenneth A. Ames, D. Ann Trieu Gahr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series ; 16Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (285 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781879621398
  • 9781789201789
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979.5/01 23
LOC classification:
  • E78.N79 H68 2006eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking about Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast -- 3. Houses and Domestication on the Northwest Coast -- 4. Architects to Ancestors: The Life Cycle of Plankhouses -- 5. A Chief’s House Speaks: Communicating Power on the Northern Northwest Coast -- 6. Temporality in Northwest Coast Households -- 7. Of a more Temporary Cast: Household Production at the Broken Tops Site -- 8. The Tsimshian Household through the Contact Period -- 9. Household Prestige and Exchange in Northwest Coast Societies: A Case Study from the Lower Columbia River Valley -- 10. Households at Ozette -- 11. Formation Processes of a Lower Columbia River Plankhouse Site -- 12. Households and Production on the Pacific Coast: The Northwest Coast and California in Comparative Perspective
Summary: Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking about Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast -- 3. Houses and Domestication on the Northwest Coast -- 4. Architects to Ancestors: The Life Cycle of Plankhouses -- 5. A Chief’s House Speaks: Communicating Power on the Northern Northwest Coast -- 6. Temporality in Northwest Coast Households -- 7. Of a more Temporary Cast: Household Production at the Broken Tops Site -- 8. The Tsimshian Household through the Contact Period -- 9. Household Prestige and Exchange in Northwest Coast Societies: A Case Study from the Lower Columbia River Valley -- 10. Households at Ozette -- 11. Formation Processes of a Lower Columbia River Plankhouse Site -- 12. Households and Production on the Pacific Coast: The Northwest Coast and California in Comparative Perspective

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Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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