Architecture and order : approaches to social space

Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world, and understanding the use of space is fundamental to archaeological inquiry. Architecture and Order draws on the work of archaeologists, social theorists and architects to explore the way in which people relate to the architecture which surrounds them. In many societies, houses and tombs have encoded cultural meanings and values which are invoked and recalled through the practices of daily life.
Chapters include explorations of the early farming r archi*eye of Europe, from before the use of metals, to the Classical and Medieval worlds of the Mediterranean and Europe. Research of the recent past and present include an overview of hunter-gatherers' camp organization, a reassessment of the use of space amongst the Dogon of West Africa and an examination of mental disorders relating to the use of space in Britain. The volume goes beyond the implication that culture determines form to develop an approach that integrates meaning and practice.

Author Notes

Michael Parker Pearson is Lecturer in Archaeology and Prehistory at the University of Sheffield and was formerly an Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage. Colin Richards is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow.

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

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