New Publication—Occasional Paper No. 35

The Durable House: House Society Models in Archaeology
Edited by Robin A. Beck, Jr.

This volume highlights the economic, ritual, and political organization of the social house, as originally defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Given its emphasis on the material conditions of social life, the house concept offers archaeologists a fertile ground for understanding change in complex societies, especially with respect to relations of status, hierarchy, and identity. One of the primary goals of this volume, then, is to foreground the materiality of the house and to demonstrate that archaeology is uniquely positioned to inform anthropological perspectives on the concept. By drawing together a diverse group of scholars, case studies, and theoretical approaches that span a range of complex societies across the Old World and the Americas, this volume offers a timely and comparative collection of archaeological insights on the social house.

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Contents:
1. The Durable House: Material, Metaphor, and Structure
Robin A. Beck, Jr.

2. When Is a House?
Susan D. Gillespie

3. Building Houses: The Materialization of Lasting Identity in Formative Mesoamerica
Rosemary A. Joyce

4. House Societies and Heterarchy in the Terminal Classic Ulúa Valley, Honduras
Jeanne Lopiparo

5. The House Between Grand Narrative and Microhistory: A house Society in the Balkans
Dusan Boric

6. The Articulation of Houses at Neolithic Çatalhöyuk, Turkey
Bleda S. Düring

7. Relocating the House: Social Transformations in Late Prehistoric Northern Europe
Fokke A. Gerritsen

8. The Changing Power of Swahili houses, Fourteenth to Nineteenth Centuries a.d.
Jeffrey B. Fleisher and Adria LaViolette

9. Power, and Precedence in Ancient House Societies: A Case Study from the Society Island Chiefdoms
Jennifer G. Kahn

10. The Social House in Southeastern Archaeology
James A. Brown

11. Houses Great and Small: Reevaluating the “House” in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Carrie C. Heitman

12. Platforms, Hierarchy, and House Emergence in the Lake Titicaca Basin Formative
Robin A. Beck, Jr.

13. Memory, Materiality, and Practice: House Societies in Southeastern Mesoamerica
Julia A. Hendon

14. House, Town, Field, and Wadi: Landscapes of the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant
Meredith S. Chesson

15. Maintaining Cohesion in House Societies of West Sumba, Indonesia
Ron L. Adams

16. Domestic Architecture and Household Wealth: The Case of Ancient Greece
Lisa Nevett

17. Living in Houses and Remaking Social Relations in Sixteenth-Century England
Matthew H. Johnson

18. House, Land, and Labor in a Frontier Landscape: The Norse Colonization of Iceland
Douglas J. Bolender

19. The Production and Representation of Status in a Tiwanaku Royal House
Nicole C. Couture

20. Courtyard Groups and the Emergence of House Estates in Early Hohokam Society
Douglas B. Craig

21. Building and Rebuilding Cherokee houses and Townhouses in Southwestern North Carolina
Christopher B. Rodning

22. House Life
Mary w. Helms