Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece - An Anthropological Approach

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This volume examines how the household is defined socially, culturally and historically in Neolithic Greece. Zusammenfassung This volume addresses the household as a process and as a conceptual and analytical means through which we can interpret social organization. Using detailed case studies from Neolithic Greece and drawing on contemporary social theory and thought! Souvatzi examines how the household is defined socially! culturally and historically. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The household in the social sciences; 2. The household as process in a social archaeology; 3. The Neolithic of Greece; 4. The ideal and the real: the examples of Early Neolithic Nea Nikomedeia and Middle Neolithic Sesklo; 5. Complexity is not only about hierarchy: Late Neolithic Dimini, a detailed case study in household organisation; 6. Homogeneity or diversity? Households as variable processes; 7. Evolution or contingency? Households as transitional processes; 8. Household and beyond: implications and prospects for social archaeology.

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• Authors: Stella Souvatzi, Stella G. Souvatzi, Stella G. (Dr) Souvatzi, Souvatzi Stella G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521836890
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83689-0
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Archaeolo; Cambridge Studies in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; prehistory, Ancient Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology