Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world; meaning may be created and reworked by defining symbolic boundaries, analogues and metaphors. For over a decade archaeologists have been using concepts of the symbolic use of space. Contributions to "Architecture and Order" range from studies of hunter-gatherer camp organization to the use of space in classical and medieval worlds. As well as archaeological case studies, there are contributions exploring aspects of anthropological, social, psychiatric and architectural theory.
Author(s): M. Pearson
Edition: 1
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 256
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
FIGURES......Page 9
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 13
1. ORDERING THE WORLD: PERCEPTIONS OF ARCHITECTURE, SPACE AND TIME......Page 15
2. ARCHITECTURE AND ORDER: SPATIAL REPRESENTATION AND ARCHAEOLOGY......Page 48
3. ARCHITECTURE AND MEANING: THE EXAMPLE OF NEOLITHIC HOUSES AND TOMBS......Page 81
4. DEFINING DOMESTIC SPACE IN THE BRONZE AGE OF SOUTHERN BRITAIN......Page 93
5. SEPARATION OR SECLUSION? TOWARDS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING WOMEN IN THE GREEK HOUSEHOLD IN THE FIFTH TO THIRD CENTURIES BC......Page 103
6. THE SPATIALITY OF THE ROMAN DOMESTIC SETTING: aN INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLIC CONTENT......Page 116
7. SWAHILI ARCHITECTURE, SPACE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE......Page 146
8. ORDERING HOUSES, CREATING NARRATIVES......Page 167
9. SPATIAL ORDER AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER......Page 174
10. THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURING OF SETTLEMENT SPACE AMONG THE DOGON OF MALI: aN ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY......Page 190
11. ORDER WITHOUT ARCHITECTURE: fUNCTIONAL, SOCIAL AND SYMBOLIC DIMENSIONS IN HUNTERGATHERER SETTLEMENT ORGANIZATION......Page 209
INDEX......Page 235
