Households in Context
eBook - ePub

Households in Context

Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Households in Context

Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

About this book

Winner of the James R. Wiseman Book Award of the Archaeological Institute of America

Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples, tombs, and elite material and visual culture to households and domestic life to provide a crucial new perspective on everyday dwelling practices and the interactions of families and individuals with larger social and cultural structures. A focus on households reveals the power of the everyday: the critical role of quotidian experiences, objects, and images in creating the worlds of the people who live with them.

The contributors to this book share contemporary research on houses and households in both Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to reshape the ways we think about ancient people's lived experiences of family, community, and society. Households in Context places the archaeology and history of Greco-Roman Egypt in dialogue with research on dwelling, daily practice, and materiality to reveal how ancient households functioned as laboratories for social, political, economic, and religious change.

Contributors: Youssri Abdelwahed, Richard Alston, Anna Lucille Boozer, Paola Davoli, David Frankfurter, Jennifer Gates-Foster, Melanie Godsey, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Sabine R. Huebner, Gregory Marouard, Miriam Müller, Lisa Nevett, Bérangère Redon, Bethany Simpson, Ross I. Thomas, Dorothy J. Thompson

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Yes, you can access Households in Context by Caitlín Eilís Barrett, Jennifer Carrington, Caitlín Eilís Barrett,Jennifer Carrington,Caitlin Eilís Barrett in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Egyptian Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. List of Contributors
  3. Note on Abbreviations
  4. Introduction: Houses, Households, and Homes: Toward an Archaeology of Dwelling
  5. Part I Households in Spatial Context: Settlements, Neighborhoods, and Urbanism
  6. Part II Households in Social Context: Families, Individuals, and Communities
  7. Part III Households in Practice: Production, Consumption, and Discard
  8. Part IV Households in Cosmic Context: Religion and Ritual
  9. Part V Expanding the Household: Dwelling Practices in Monastic and Military Contexts
  10. Afterwords: Perspectives from Pharaonic Egypt and the Greco-Roman World
  11. Index