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Household chores and household choices : theorizing the domestic sphere in historical archaeology
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ISBN: 0817381643 9780817381646 0817313958 0817350985 9780817313951 9780817350987 Year: 2004 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,

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Abstract

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 fai

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