1st Edition
Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgement
Chapter 1
Introduction: Global Comparative Approaches to Households and Change in Past Societies
Lacey B. Carpenter and Anna Marie Prentiss
Chapter 2
Perspectives: Households as Assemblages
Julián Salazar, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Jennifer G. Kahn
Chapter 3
Pottery, Social Memory, and Household Cooperation in the Woodland-Period Southeast US Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Neill J. Wallis
Chapter 4
Household Dynamics and the Reproduction of Early Village Societies in Northwest Argentina (200 BC-AD 850)
Julián Salazar
Chapter 5
Houses of Power: Community Houses and Specialized Houses as Markers of Social Complexity in the Pre-Contact Society Island Chiefdoms
Jennifer G. Kahn
Chapter 6
Perspectives: Situating Households within Broader Networks
Colin P. Quinn, Donna M. Glowacki, Carl J. Wendt, and Nathan Goodale
Chapter 7
Mitigating Stress through Organizational Change in a Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde Alcove Village
Donna M. Glowacki and Kay E. Barnett
Chapter 8
Collective Action, Cooperation, and Olmec Sociopolitical Organization: A Household Archaeology Approach
Carl J. Wendt
Chapter 9
Monumentality of Houses: Collective Action, Inequality, and Kinship in Pithouse Construction
Nathan Goodale, Colin P. Quinn, and Alissa Nauman
Chapter 10
Perspectives: Household-Centered Approaches to Transformative Change
Lacey B. Carpenter, Charles S. Spencer, Elsa M. Redmond, and Casey R. Barrier
Chapter 11
The Persistence of Sedentism throughout Cahokia's Urban Moment: Historical Materialism and Insights into the Dominant Built Form
Casey R. Barrier
Chapter 12
The Spaces and Networks Between Households
Ian Kuijt
Chapter 13
Changes in Household Organization and the Development of Classic Period Mimbres Pueblos
Barbara J. Roth
Chapter 14
New Roles, New Rules: Elite Residence, Succession to Public Office, and Political Evolution in Oaxaca
Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond
Chapter 15
Conclusion: Reflections and Implications
Anna Marie Prentiss and Lacey B. Carpenter
Index
Biography
Lacey Carpenter is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Hamilton College and a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History.
Anna Marie Prentiss is Regents Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montana.
