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Architecture and order : approaches to social space / [edited by] Michael Parker Pearson & Colin Richards.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Description: xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415157439
  • 9780415157438
  • 0415067286
  • 9780415067287
Other title:
  • Architecture & order [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.103 21
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 A6273 1996
Contents:
Ordering the world : perceptions of architecture, space and time / Mike Parker Pearson and Colin Richards -- Architecture and order : spatial representation and archaeology / Mike Parker Pearson and Colin Richards -- Architecture and meaning : the example of Neolithic houses and tombs / Ian Hodder -- Defining domestic space in the Bronze Age of southern Britain / John C. Barrett -- Separation or seclusion? Towards an archaeological approach to investigating women in the Greek household in the fifth to third centuries BC / Lisa Nevett -- The spatiality of the Roman domestic setting : an interpretation of symbolic content / Clive Knights -- Swahili architecture, space and social structure / Mark Horton -- Ordering houses, creating narratives / Matthew H. Johnson -- Spatial order and psychiatric disorder / Annie E.A. Bartlett -- The temporal structuring of settlement space among the Dogon of Mali : an ethnoarchaeological study / Paul J. Lane -- Order without architecture : functional, social and symbolic dimensions in hunter-gatherer settlement organization / Todd M. Whitelaw.
Summary: "Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world; 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. The contributors discuss the development of an archaeological language used to describe architecture's symbolic use of space and to further define the discipline's interaction with not only architecture but also anthropology. Topics discussed include Neolithic houses and tombs; perceptions of architecture, space and time; defining domestic space in the bronze age; women in Greek households; the Roman domestic setting; Swahili architecture; and spatial order and psychiatric disorder."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ordering the world : perceptions of architecture, space and time / Mike Parker Pearson and Colin Richards -- Architecture and order : spatial representation and archaeology / Mike Parker Pearson and Colin Richards -- Architecture and meaning : the example of Neolithic houses and tombs / Ian Hodder -- Defining domestic space in the Bronze Age of southern Britain / John C. Barrett -- Separation or seclusion? Towards an archaeological approach to investigating women in the Greek household in the fifth to third centuries BC / Lisa Nevett -- The spatiality of the Roman domestic setting : an interpretation of symbolic content / Clive Knights -- Swahili architecture, space and social structure / Mark Horton -- Ordering houses, creating narratives / Matthew H. Johnson -- Spatial order and psychiatric disorder / Annie E.A. Bartlett -- The temporal structuring of settlement space among the Dogon of Mali : an ethnoarchaeological study / Paul J. Lane -- Order without architecture : functional, social and symbolic dimensions in hunter-gatherer settlement organization / Todd M. Whitelaw.

"Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world; 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. The contributors discuss the development of an archaeological language used to describe architecture's symbolic use of space and to further define the discipline's interaction with not only architecture but also anthropology. Topics discussed include Neolithic houses and tombs; perceptions of architecture, space and time; defining domestic space in the bronze age; women in Greek households; the Roman domestic setting; Swahili architecture; and spatial order and psychiatric disorder."--Publisher description.

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