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"Focusing on a living community in rural northeastern Iran, Village Spaces explores the relationship between the material, social, and cultural dimensions of human settlement and its architecture. Applying current ethnoarchaeological theories, Horne asserts that settlement anywhere in the world is a dynamic, flexible adaptation that adjusts to changing conditions with varying degrees of success. The architectural environment shapes and is shaped by technology social relations, expressive and communicative behavior, and ideas about the world and society." "Horne moves from the general to the specific - both analytically and spatially - detailing the processes by which settlement relates to society in the small agricultural and pastoral villages in Khar o Tauran on the Iranian Plateau. Shifting her focus from rooms and activities to houses and households, then to the entire village and its fields, Horne provides a theoretical framework for studies of settlement throughout the world. She discusses such issues as the location of settlements in relation to subsistence choices and social interaction, the architectural expression of wealth and status, the effects of architectural reuse on the archaeological record, and the processes of mound formation." "The first ethnography to be written about rural settlement in eastern Iran, Village Spaces presents a unique database from an area now inaccessible to Western scholars."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Basing her book on ethnoarchaeological research in the middle to late 1970s in an isolated rural region at the edge of the desert in northeastern Iran, the archaeologist author describes and analyzes the dynamic processes by which the shape of human settlement and its architecture is related to the physical environment as well as to the shape of society and culture. In describing a small village of 150 Persian-speaking inhabitants who practice a mixed economy of agriculture and pastoralism, Horne (University Museum, Univ. of Pennsylvania) details their subsistence practices, physical structures, and households with the aim of assisting archaeologists and other scientists in their efforts to understand present as well as past human patterns in a part of the world where similar patterns have existed for thousands of years. She includes a bibliography, photographs, and extensive tables, figures, and notes. The volume has particular importance because most Western scholars have been unable to conduct anthropological and archaeological research in Iran since the revolution of 1978-79. Graduate; faculty. L. Beck; Washington University
