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Domestic Architecture and Power
Ross W. Jamieson
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Description for Domestic Architecture and Power
Hardback. A study of the power relationships inherent in domestic architecture and household material culture that were essential to the maintenance of the Spanish colonial empire. Using the household spatial patterning, furnishings, and personal belongings of residents, this book examines gender, ethnic, and status relations in the colonial Andean world. Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; 3JD; 3JF; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1250.
Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology’s sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a gr- ing number of recent projects are successfully integrating textual and material culture data in studies of the events and processes of the last 500 years. This interval and this region–often called Ibero-America–have been studied for a century or more by historians with traditional perspectives and emphases focusing on colonial elites and large-scale politico-economic events. Such inclinations fit well into world-system and other core-peri- ery models that have ... Read more
Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology’s sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a gr- ing number of recent projects are successfully integrating textual and material culture data in studies of the events and processes of the last 500 years. This interval and this region–often called Ibero-America–have been studied for a century or more by historians with traditional perspectives and emphases focusing on colonial elites and large-scale politico-economic events. Such inclinations fit well into world-system and other core-peri- ery models that have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306461767
SKU
V9780306461767
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Reviews for Domestic Architecture and Power
`The book contains a valuable historical context for the region and town, and also has a valuable historiography on southern South American historical archaeology. ...here is a case study with local and national significance which links to international themes.' Post-Medieval Archaeology, 36 (2002)