TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barile,Kerri S.
AU  - Anderson,Nesta
AU  - Battle,Whitney L.
AU  - Beaudry,Mary Carolyn
AU  - Bonine,Mindy L.
AU  - Davidson,James M.
AU  - Franklin,Maria
AU  - Galindo,Mary Jo
AU  - Pappas,Efstathios I.
AU  - Brandon,Jamie C.
TI  - Household Chores and Household Choices: Theorizing the Domestic Sphere in Historical Archaeology
SN  - 9780817381646
AV  - E159 
U1  - 640/.973 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Archaeology and history -- United States
KW  - Families -- United States -- History
KW  - Historic sites -- United States
KW  - Households -- United States -- History
KW  - Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
KW  - Material culture -- United States
KW  - Sex role -- United States -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword (Maria Franklin) -- 1. Introduction: Household Chores -- or, the Chore of Defining the Household -- PART I. A SENSE OF PLACE -- 2. Analysis of Household and Family at a Spanish Colonial Rancho along the Rio Grande -- 3. A Space of Our Own: Rede¤ning the Enslaved Household at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Plantation -- 4. Separate Kitchens and Intimate Archaeology: Constructing Urban Slavery on the Antebellum Cotton Frontier in Washington, Arkansas -- 5. "Living Symbols of their Lifelong Struggles": In Search of the Home and Household in the Heart of Freedman's Town, Dallas, Texas -- PART II. A SENSE OF SPACE -- 6. Finding the Space Between Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: The Archaeology of Nested Households -- 7. Hegemony within the Household -- The Perspective from a South Carolina Plantation -- 8. A Historic Pay-for-Housework Community Household: The Cambridge Cooperative Housekeeping Society -- 9. Fictive Kin in the Mountains: The Paternalistic Metaphor and Households in a California Logging Camp -- PART III. A SENSE OF BEING -- 10. The Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Nuevo Santander Rancho Households -- 11. Reconstructing Domesticity and Segregating Households: The Intersections of Gender and Race in the Postbellum South -- 12. Working-Class Households as Sites of Social Change -- PART IV. MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL: COMMENTARIES ON THE HOUSEHOLD -- 13. What Difference Does Feminist Theory Make in Researching Households? A Commentary -- 14. Doing the Housework: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Households -- References -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - Presents a variety of archaeological case studies on daily life in a wide range of locations and circumstances. Because archaeology seeks to understand past societies, the concepts of "home," "house," and "household" are important. Yet they can be the most elusive of ideas. Are they the space occupied by a nuclear family or by an extended one? Is it a built structure or the sum of its contents? Is it a shelter against the elements, a gendered space, or an ephemeral place tied to emotion? We somehow believe that the household is a basic unit of culture but have failed to develop a theory for understanding the diversity of households in the historic (and prehistoric) periods. In an effort to clarify these questions, this volume examines a broad range of households-a Spanish colonial rancho along the Rio Grande, Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in Tennessee, plantations in South Carolina and the Bahamas, a Colorado coal camp, a frontier Arkansas farm, a Freedman's Town eventually swallowed by Dallas, and plantations across the South-to define and theorize domestic space. The essays devolve from many disciplines, but all approach households from an archaeological perspective, looking at landscape analysis, excavations, reanalyzed collections, or archival records. Together, the essays present a body of knowledge that takes the identification, analysis, and interpretation of households far beyond current conceptions
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