Crossing the Threshold

Negotiating Space in the Vernacular Houses of the Isle of Lewis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11611103
AutoresCatriona Mackie (Manx National Heritage, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen171
Número1
Páginas312-339
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00665983.2014.11078269
OpenAlexW2079727151
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

This paper explores the construction of boundaries and thresholds as a means to examine the ways in which space is delineated and used within the house. Focusing on examples of vernacular housing from the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly of the Western Isles, the types of boundaries and thresholds that existed within the house are examined, alongside their role in establishing, reinforcing and manipulating social relationships among the inhabitants, both human and animal. As the houses in Lewis developed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD, boundaries and thresholds lost or gained significance as they were moved, adapted, added and abandoned. Such developments reflected not only changing social conventions, but also the changing relationship between Lewis tenants and their cattle

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Economic geography · Ethnology · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Vernacular · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy