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Title Household chores and household choices : theorizing the domestic sphere in historical archaeology / edited by Kerri S. Barile and Jamie C. Brandon.

Imprint Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

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 Axe Special Collections  640 H816 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiv, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-305) and index.
Contents Household chores; or the chore of defining the household / Jamie C. Brandon, Kerri S. Barile -- Analysis of household and family at a Spanish colonial rancho along the Rio Grande / Mindy Bonine -- A space of our own: redefining the enslaved household at Andrew Jackson's hermitage plantation / Whitney Battle -- Separate kitchens and intimate archaeology: constructing urban slavery on the antebellum cotton frontier in Washington, Arkansas / Leslie C. Stewart-Arbernathy -- "Living symbols of their lifelong struggles": in search of the home and household in the heart of Freedman's Town, Dallas, Texas / James M. Davidson -- Finding the space between spatial boundaries and social dynamics: the archeology of nested households / Nesta Anderson -- Hegemony within the household: the perspective from a South Carolina plantation / Kerri S. Barile -- A historic pay-for-housework community household: the Cambridge Cooperative Housekeeping Society / Suzanne Spencer-Wood -- Fictive kin in the mountains: the paternalistic metaphor and households in a California logging camp / Efstathios I. Pappas -- The ethnohistory and archaeology of Nuevo Santander Rancho households / Mary Jo Galindo -- Reconstructing domesticity and segregating households: the intersections of gender and race in the postbellum south / Jamie C. Brandon -- Working-class households as sites of social change / Margaret C. Wood -- What difference does feminist theory make in researching households? A commentary / Suzanne Spencer-Wood -- Doing the housework: new approaches to the archaeology of households / Mary C. Beaudry.
Subject United States -- Antiquities.
Historic sites -- United States.
Material culture -- United States.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Households -- United States -- History.
Families -- United States -- History.
Sex role -- United States -- History.
Archaeology and history -- United States.
Feminist archaeology -- United States.
Archaeology -- Methodology.
Added Author Barile, Kerri S.
Brandon, Jamie C.
ISBN 0817313958 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817313951 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817350985 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817350987 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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