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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
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Preliminary Bibliography (stay tuned for reading schedule and links!)

Core Reading:

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1997. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bowes, Kim. 2010. Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire. London: Duckworth.

Hendon, Julia A. 2010. Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica. Durham: Duke University Press.

Mattingly, David J., and David Salmon, eds. 2001. Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World. London: Routledge.

Parker, Bradley J., and Catherine P. Foster, eds. 2012. New Perspectives on Household Archaeology. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.

Wendrich, Willeke, ed. 2013. Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press.

 

Additional Reading:

Allison, Penelope M. 2001. “Using the Material and Written Sources: Turn of the Millennium Approaches to Roman Domestic Space.” American Journal of Archaeology 105 (2): 181–208.

———. 2004. Pompeian Households: An Analysis of Material Culture. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

Ault, Bradley A. 1999. “Koprones and Oil Presses at Halieis: Interactions of Town and Country and the Integration of Domestic and Regional Economies.” Hesperia 68 (4): 549–573.

———. 2005. “Housing the Poor and Homeless in Ancient Greece.” In Ancient Greek Houses and Households: Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity, ed. Bradley A. Ault and Lisa C. Nevett, 140–159. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Bachelard, Gaston. 1958. The Poetics of Space: A Classic Look at How We Experience Intimate Places. Trans. Maria Jolas. Boston: Beacon Press.

Blanton, Richard E. 1994. Houses and Households: A Comparative Study. New York: Plenum.

Blier, S. 1987. The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Boivin, Nicole. 2000. “Life Rhythms and Floor Sequences: Excavating Time in Rural Rajasthan and Neolithic Catalhoyuk.” World Archaeology 31 (3): 367–388.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990. “The Kabyle House or the World Reversed.” In The Logic of Practice, ed. Pierre Bourdieu, 271–283. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Costin, Cathy Lynne. 1991. “Craft Specialization: Issues in Defining, Documenting, and Explaining the Organization of Production.” Archaeological Method and Theory 3: 1–56.

Dobres, Marcia-Anne. 2000. Technology and Social Agency: Outlining an Anthropological Framework for Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell.

Dobres, Marcia-Anne, and John E. Robb, eds. 2000. Agency in Archaeology. London: Routledge.

Douglass, John G., and Richard A. Heckman. 2012. “Pots and Agriculture: Anasazi Rural Production, Long House Valley, Northern Arizona.” In Ancient Households of the Americas: Conceptualizing What Households Do, ed. John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin, 189–220. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

Dyson, Stephen L. 2003. The Roman Countryside. London: Duckworth.

Feinman, Gary M. 1999. “Rethinking Our Assumptions: Economic Specialization at the Household Scale in Ancient Ejutla, Oaxaca, Mexico.” In Pottery and People: A Dynamic Interaction, ed. James M. Skibo and Gary M. Feinman, 81–98. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

González Marcén, Paloma, Cristina Masvidal Fernández, Sandra Montón-Subías, and Marina Picazo Gurina. 2007. “Interpreting Household Practices: Reflections on the Social and Cultural Roles of Maintenance Activities.” In Interpreting Household Practices. Reflections on the Social and Cultural Roles of Maintenance Activities, ed. Paloma González Marcén, Cristina Masvidal Fernández, Sandra Montón-Subías, and Marina Picazo Gurina, 13:1–4. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Gosselain, Oliver P. 2000. “Materializing Identities: An African Perspective.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 7 (3): 187–217.

Hamilakis, Yannis. 2011. “Archaeological Ethnography: A Multitemporal Meeting Ground for Archaeology and Anthropology.” Annual Review of Anthropology 40: 399–414.

Hasaki, Eleni. 2011. “Crafting Spaces: Archaeological, Ethnographical, and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives in Spatial Analysis of Pottery Workshops in Greece and Tunisia.” In Pottery in the Archaeological Record: Greece and Beyond. Acts of the International Colloquium Held at the Danish and Canadian Institutes in Athens, June 20-22 2008, ed. M. Lawall and J. Lund, 11–28. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

———. 2013. “Craft Apprenticeship in Ancient Greece: Reaching Beyond the Masters.” In Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge, Identities, and Communities of Practice, ed. Welleke Wendrick, 171–202. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press.

Hendon, Julia A. 2007. “Memory, Materiality, and Practice: House Societies in Southeastern Mesoamerica.” In The Durable House: House Society Models in Archaeology, ed. Robin A. Jr. Beck, 292–315. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.

Herbich, Ingrid, and Michael Dietler. 1999. “Domestic Space, Social Life and Settlement Biography: Theoretical Reflections from the Ethnography of a Rural African Landscape.” In L’Espai Domèstic i l’Organització De La Societat a La Protohistòria De La Mediterrània Occidental (Ier Millenni). Actes De La IV Reunió Internacional d'Arqueologia De Calafell (Calafell - Tarragona, 6 Al 9 De Març De 2007), ed. M.C. Belarte, 11–23. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Classica.

Hirth, Kenneth G. 2009. “Housework and Domestic Craft Production: An Introduction.” In Housework: Craft Production and Domestic Economy in Ancient Mesoamerica (Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 19), ed. Kenneth G. Hirth, 1–12. Washington D.C.: American Anthropological Association.

Hruby, Z. X., R. K. Flad, and G. P. Bennett, eds. 2007. Rethinking Craft Specialization in Complex Societes: Archeological Analyses of the Social Meaning of Production. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.

Ingold, Tim. 1993. “The Temporality of the Landscape.” World Archaeology 25 (2, Conceptions of Time and Ancient Society): 152–174.

———. 2000. “Building, Dwelling, Living: How Animals and People Make Themselves at Home in the World.” In The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, 172–188. London: Routledge.

Johnson, Matthew. 2010. English Houses 1300-1800: Vernacular Architecture, Social Life. London: Pearson.

Joyce, Rosemary, and Susan Gillespie. 2000. Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies. Ed. Rosemary Joyce and Susan Gillespie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kearney, Michael. 1996. Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Kramer, Carol. 1982. Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in an Archaeological Perspective. New York: Academic Press.

Van der Leeuw, Sander. 1977. “Towards a Study of the Economics of Pottery Making.” In Ex Horreo, ed. B.L. Beek, R.W. Brant, and W. Guenman van Watteringe, 68–76. Amsterdam: Albert Egges van Giffen Instituut voor Prae- en Protohistorie, University of Amsterdam.

Lefebvre, Henri. 1997. “The Production of Space.” In Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, ed. Neil Leach, 139–147. London: Routledge.

Matthews, Wendy. 2004. “Micromorphological and Microstratigraphic Traces of Uses and Concepts of Space.” In Inhabiting Catalhoyuk: Reports from the 1995-1999 Seasons, ed. Ian Hodder, 355–398. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.

Morris, Ian. 1998. “Remaining Invisible: The Archaeology of the Excluded in Classical Athens.” In Women and Slaves in Greceo-Roman Culture: Differential Equations, ed. S.R. Joshel and S. Murnaghan, 193–220. London: Routledge.

———. 2007. “Archaeology, Standards of Living, and Greek Economic History.” In The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, ed. J.G. Manning and Ian Morris, 91–126. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Nevett, Lisa C. 1994. “Separation of Seclusion? Towards an Archaeological Approach to Investigating Women in the Greek Household in the Fifth to Third Centuries BC.” In Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space, ed. Michael Parker Pearson and Colin Richards, 89–112. London: Routledge.

———. 2010. Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parker, Bradley J. 2012. “Domestic Production and Subsistence in an Ubaid Household in Upper Mesopotamia.” In New Perspectives on Household Archaeology, ed. Bradley J. Parker and Catherine P. Foster, 289–318. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Peacock, D.P.S. 1982. Pottery in the Roman World: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach. London and New York: Longman.

Pettegrew, David K. 2001. “Chasing the Classical Farmstead: Assessing the Formation and Signature of Rural Settlement in Greek Landscape Archaeology.” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 14 (2): 189–209.

Pluckhahn, Thomas J. 2010. “Household Archaeology in the Southeastern United States: History, Trends, and Challenges.” Journal of Archaeological Research 18 (4): 331–385.

Robin, Cynthia. 2002. “Outside of Houses: The Practices of Everyday Life at Chan Nòohol, Belize.” Journal of Social Archaeology 2 (2): 245–268.

Samson, Ross, ed. 1990. The Social Archaeology of Houses. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Sheets, Payson. 2000. “Provisioning the Cerèn Household: The Vertical Economy, Village Economy, and Household Economy in the Southeastern Maya Periphery.” Ancient Mesoamerica 11 (2): 217–230.

Shimada, Izumi (ed.). 2007. Craft Production in Complex Societies: Multicraft and Producer Perspectives. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Silverstein, Paul A. 2004. “Of Rooting and Uprooting: Kabyle Habitus, Domesticity, and Structural Nostalgia.” Ethnography 5: 553–578.

Smith, Helen, Peter Marshall, and Micheal Parker Pearson. 2001. “Reconstructing House Activity Areas.” In Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose, ed. Umberto Albarella, 249–270. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Smith, Monica L. 1999. “The Role of Ordinary Goods in Premodern Exchange.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 6 (2): 109–135.

Sofaer, Joanna. 2006. “Pots, Houses and Metal: Technological Relations at the Bronze Age Tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 25 (2): 127–147.

Souvatzi, Stella G. 2008. A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece: An Anthropological Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sutton, Susan Buck, ed. 2000. Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy, and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Thomas, Julian. 2008. “Archaeology, Landscape, and Dwelling.” In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, ed. Bruno David and Julian Thomas, 300–306. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Tringham, Ruth. 1995. “Households, Housework and the Home.” In The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings, and Environments, ed. Daniel N. Benjamin and David Stea, 79–107. Aldershot: Avebury.

Waterson, R. 1990. The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia. London: Thames and Hudson.

Whitelaw, Todd. 2000. “Reconstructing the Classical Landscape with Figures: Some Interpretive Explorations in North-West Keos.” In Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages, ed. Riccardo Francovich, Helen Patterson, and Graeme Barker, 227–243. Oxford: Oxbow.

Wilk, Richard R., and William L. Rathje. 1982. “Household Archaeology.” American Behavioral Scientist 25 (6): 617–639.

Wilkie, Laurie A., and Paul Farnsworth. 2005. Sampling Many Pots' ': an Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Yasur-Landau, Assaf, Jennie R. Ebeling, and Laura B. Mazow, eds. 2011. Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond. Leiden: Brill.