Download or read book Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics written by Augustin Holl and published by International Monographs in Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 7 ethnoarchaeological case studies from food-producing societies. Contributors include: K E Agorsah (Archaeological considerations on social dynamics); G D Stone (Agrarian settlement and the spatial disposition of labour); A Holl (Community interaction and settlement patterning in Northern Cameroon); T E Levy (Production, space, and social change in protohistoric Palestine); I Musa (Traditional iron technology and settlement patterns in central Darfur); A Holl (Late Neolithic cultural landscape in southeastern Mauritania).
Download or read book Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics written by Augustin Holl and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 7 ethnoarchaeological case studies from food-producing societies.
Download or read book Unveiling the Wall written by Sohrab Rahimi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research aims to identify and characterize the socio-spatial boundaries that separate urbancommunities in American contemporary cities. The American contemporary city, also known asthe postmodern city, is characterized by high social mobility and extreme social polarization.Studying these cities with highly dynamic socio-spatial boundaries is challenging and conventionaldata sources such as US Census fail to provide a full picture of these boundaries. As an alternativemethod, this study uses a crowd-sourced social media data (Yelp) to identify these socio-spatialboundaries in the context of postmodern cities. By drawing on Bourdieus theory which assertsthat taste is an indicator of identifying social groups, I identify urban communities in differentcities through analysis of Yelp reviews. I also investigate the physical characteristics of the sociospatial boundaries between these communities.The first part of this study validates Bourdieus theory of distinction in the context of Americancities. I use Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to see if the frequency of certain foodand drink types as mentioned by Yelp reviews in different regions can be a good proxy of socialclass, as defined by Bourdieu. Through statistical analyses, I show that taste for food and drink isan acceptable proxy for social class which is conventionally characterized by education, incomeand race. While I investigate the association between food and drink types discussed in the Yelpreviews (by restaurant patrons) and demographics of neighborhoods in which the restaurants arelocated I recognize that there are no means to ascertain if the patrons of the restaurants are residentsof the neighborhood in which the restaurants are located. Furthermore, I use taste as a way todistinguish between different groups and not as a means to categorize groups in a hierarchicalmanner.In the second part of the study, I investigate the extent to which observable spatial patterns can befound by using taste as an indicator. The first part of the study (discussed in the previous paragraph)validates Bourdieus theory however, it does not show whether or not taste is capable of showinggeographic/spatial patterns and can be used as an indicator for identifying spatially located urbangroups. In this part, I first identify food and drink types that distinguish Yelp users in their ratingsor choice of restaurant. I then use these selected set of foods and drinks to find the social groupsby using unsupervised techniques. Our clustering results showed clear spatial boundaries betweengroups of people with different taste in food and drink.In the third part of this study I investigate the socio-spatial boundaries which I found in the secondpart of the study. Based on Lefebvres theory, I argue that there are two possibilities at the borderlines: boundaries or junction points. Boundaries separate one neighborhood from another, whilejunction points connect the communities. Accordingly, I train multiple classifiers to see whichurban and physical factors, as extracted through an extensive literature review, are associated withformation of these junction points and boundaries. Our findings are consistent with previous ivstudies. I found that junction points have higher density of businesses, are more walkable, and areless likely to have high percentage of service industries such as warehouses and transportationrelated.In this tripartite study, I showed that Bourdieus theory of distinction is still valid in the context ofthe US. I also showed that socio-spatial boundaries can be identified through analyzing socialmedia datasets that are more current, have higher spatial resolution, and lower costs compared tothe Census data. Lastly, I showed that the socio-spatial boundaries identified through this process,have certain physical characteristics which can help urban planners and policy makers to makemore informed decisions. Our methods, therefore, puts forth a new method to understand theincreasingly complex social dynamics of American cities and gives new directions to futureresearch to further investigate the urban boundaries using different other datasets and statisticalmethods. The results of this study can help planners, geographers and social scientists gain a betterunderstanding of the socio-spatial structure of contemporary cities and more importantly, designfriendly cities that are inclusive to all social groups.
Download or read book Setting Boundaries written by Deborah Pellow and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-01-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proxemic studies concentrate on the structure and organization of space, its design and use, allocation, and the relations encoded in it as aspects of cultural communication. Space is perceived through the senses, and since cultures use the senses differently, they create boundaries differently. Pellow, in her edited collection of boundary studies, focuses on the social conception and production of boundedness. The essays by 10 scholars, eight of them anthropologists, explore the nature of boundaries in terms of change, space and place, society and culture, politics, class, urbanization, housing, and secular and spiritual life.
Download or read book Comparative Social Dynamics written by Erik Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original articles relate to major themes in the comparative study of the dynamics of cultures, modernization, and social and political change. The authors, ranking scholars in their fields, provide fresh and important insights to the study of topics such as the interface of anthropological and sociological theory, the dynamics of Latin Americ
Download or read book Mobility and Territoriality written by Michael Casimir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Territorial behaviour among various herders and hunter-gatherers has been discussed in earlier studies, but this is the first time that a comparison of these three types of mobile populations has been attempted. The original papers presented in this volume discuss the conditions and problems of securing access to resources among pastoralists, peripatetics, and hunting, gathering and fishing communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. A comprehensive introductory chapter places these empirical studies in a broader theoretical context of the behaviourial sciences.
Download or read book Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast written by Elizabeth A. Sobel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.
Download or read book Ex changing Boundaries written by Dania Hussein Akhal and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite our awareness of various social processes that shape and get shaped by [urban] space, significant gaps remain in our understanding of ways social and spatial parameters contribute to the resolutions and shifts in sites of conflict-ridden boundaries. Based on the conception of boundary as a sociospatial phenomenon, the study traces the social practices and their interstices of post-war urban transformations within the space of the former Green Line of Beirut and investigates its social and spatial dynamics that contribute to boundary shifts and forms after twelve years of the end of the civil war. The understanding of such transformations and practices conceived through sociospatial exchange, negotiation, conflict, and control may reveal hidden insights of everyday communal actions, institutional performances, and administrative influences that in turn shape and bound the production of space in a particular site along the GL. Furthermore, while being critical of the previous conception and representation of the GL, the study explores a method of spatial representation through which the conceptual readings in/of such sites are achieved through new coded tools of visual articulation.
Download or read book Multiscalar Approaches to Studying Social Organization and Change in the Isthmo Colombian Area written by Scott D. Palumbo and published by Center for Comparative Arch. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters offer new understandings of how ranked societies emerged and developed in prehistoric southern Central America and northern South America (the "Isthmo-Colombian Area"). The emphasis is on integrating the results of studies of social units at a range of different scales from the household to the local commuity to the region and beyond. Complete text in English and Spanish.
Download or read book Blurring Timescapes Subverting Erasure written by Sarah Surface-Evans and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.
Download or read book Analyzing Social Space written by Marjorie A. W. Heyman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persistent Pastoralism Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar written by Joy McCorriston and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of archaeological work along the Dhofar plateau and its backslope into the Nejd of Southern Oman, this book documents survey and excavation of small-scale stone monuments and pastoral settlements.
Download or read book Handbook of Archaeological Methods written by Herbert D. G. Maschner and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Archaeological Methods comprises 37 articles by leading archaeologists on the key methods used by archaeologists in the field, in analysis, in theory building, and in managing cultural resources. The book is destined to become the key reference work for archaeologists and their advanced students on contemporary archaeological methods.
Download or read book Household Chores and Household Choices written by Kerri S. Barile and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004-06-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the concepts of “home,” “house,” and “household” in past societies Because archaeology seeks to understand past societies, the concepts of "home," "house," and "household" are important. Yet they can be the most elusive of ideas. Are they the space occupied by a nuclear family or by an extended one? Is it a built structure or the sum of its contents? Is it a shelter against the elements, a gendered space, or an ephemeral place tied to emotion? We somehow believe that the household is a basic unit of culture but have failed to develop a theory for understanding the diversity of households in the historic (and prehistoric) periods. In an effort to clarify these questions, this volume examines a broad range of households—a Spanish colonial rancho along the Rio Grande, Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in Tennessee, plantations in South Carolina and the Bahamas, a Colorado coal camp, a frontier Arkansas farm, a Freedman's Town eventually swallowed by Dallas, and plantations across the South—to define and theorize domestic space. The essays devolve from many disciplines, but all approach households from an archaeological perspective, looking at landscape analysis, excavations, reanalyzed collections, or archival records. Together, the essays present a body of knowledge that takes the identification, analysis, and interpretation of households far beyond current conceptions.
Download or read book The Socio Economics of Roman Storage written by Astrid Van Oyen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first archaeological study to approach the central problem of storage in the Roman world holistically, across contexts and datasets, of interest to students and scholars of Roman archaeology and history and to anthropologists keen to link the scales of farmer and state.
Download or read book Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean written by James A. Delle and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While previous research on household archaeology in the colonial Caribbean has drawn heavily on artifact analysis, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of the architecture of slave housing during this period. It examines the considerations that went into constructing and inhabiting living spaces for the enslaved and reveals the diversity of people and practices in these settings. Contributors present case studies using written descriptions, period illustrations, and standing architecture, in addition to archaeological evidence to illustrate the wide variety of built environments for enslaved populations in places including Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the islands of the Lesser Antilles. They investigate how the enslaved defined their social positions and identities through house, yard, and garden space; they explore what daily life was like for slaves on military compounds; they compare the spatial arrangements of slave villages on plantations based on type of labor; and they show how the style of traditional laborer houses became a form of vernacular architecture still in use today. This volume expands our understanding of the wide range of enslaved experiences across British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies. Contributors: Elizabeth C. Clay | James A. Delle | Todd M. Ahlman | Marco Meniketti | Kenneth Kelly | Hayden Bassett | James A. Delle | Kristen R. Fellows | Allan D. Meyers | Elizabeth C. Clay | Alicia Odewale | Meredith D. Hardy | Zachary J. M. Beier | Mark W. Hauser A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Download or read book Conviviality in Bellville An Ethnography of Space Place Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa written by Ingrid Brudvig and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into the experiences of mobility and migration in contemporary South Africa, contributing to a field of literature about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It takes into consideration the greater international political and local socio-economic factors that drive migration, relationships and conviviality, and how they are intertwined in the everyday narrative of insiders and outsiders. The Bellville central business district demonstrates the realities of interconnected local and global hierarchies of citizenship and belonging and how they emerge in a world of accelerated mobility. The book further demonstrates how the emergence of conviviality in everyday public life represents a critical field for contemplating contemporary notions of human rights, citizenship and belonging.
