Reassembling the household for Icelandic archaeology
A contribution to comparative political economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10999727 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas J Bolender (0000-0003-3563-6116, University of Massachusetts Boston, corresponding author), E Diane Johnson (0000-0002-7739-5237, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-83 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Post-Medieval Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-4236 • E-ISSN: 1745-8137 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00794236.2018.1461325 |
| OpenAlex | W2883729941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 80 |
Between the 11th and 19th centuries, household archaeology in Iceland comprises rural, dispersed farmsteads notable for their boundedness and stability, suggesting productive and reproductive autonomy. Insights from Actor-Network Theory and entanglement theory help ‘disassemble’ this assumption by shifting our focus first to the agencies, flows and dependences that comprise a political economy without assuming the household’s relations of production a priori. Architecture, settlement patterns, landscape and midden accumulations from the Langholt region in Skagafjörður, North Iceland, along with historical data illustrate that households in Iceland are actually marked by social dissolution, alienation and instability through dramatic political-economic dis- and re-assembling which in turn produces the stability in the material manifestation of the household. These data caution against a simple relationship between the household and archaeological farmstead, and suggest that measures of dependency and instability are critical to a comparative method for unravelling entanglements between capitalist and non-capitalist political economies
Archaeology · Economics · Economy · Geography · Icelandic · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Law · Philosophy · Rural development and sustainability
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Urbanity, Decline, and Regeneration in Later Medieval England
Assembling a household in the Middle Nile Valley (Old Dongola, Sudan) in the 16th-17th centuries
Examining Temporality and Difference
Households in Transition
Small Dwelling Sites in the Medieval Settlement of Iceland
Multiple archives of modernity
Tenancy, finance, and access to commercial goods
Beyond the Longhouse
Engendering archaeology
Houses and Households
The Economy as Instituted Process
Trade and Market in the Early Empires
Smallholders, Householders
Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica
Europe and the people without history
Nature and Policy in Iceland 1400–1800
The Archaeology Of Household Activities
Monopoly Trade and Economic Stagnation
Institutional change in Icelandic agriculture, 1780–1940
Conclusions
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts, an Introduction
Surplus
Myths of the Archaic State
The Political Landscape
Reassembling the Social
Dual-tier approach to societal evolution and types
Cows, harp seals, and churchbells
Later Historical Archaeology in Iceland
Entanglement and Relation
They did not Live by Grass Alone
Mobile Communities
New Directions in Classic Maya Household Archaeology
Nature in League with Man
Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement
The New Spirit of Capitalism
Local‐scale adaptations
Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland
Deeper Histories of Dispossession
Medieval Iceland
The Viking Age settlement pattern of Langholt, North Iceland
The Roles of Pit Houses and Gendered Spaces on Viking-Age Farmsteads in Iceland
Fishing for Modernity
The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts
The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
Network Analysis and Entanglement
How Chiefs Come to Power
Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply]
The Peopling of Iceland
Actor-Network Theory's Take on Archaeological Types
Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies
Wheels of Time
The Social' and Beyond
The Entanglements of Humans and Things
The Old Icelandic Land Registers
Household Archaeology
Zooarchaeology and the Archaeology of Early Modern Iceland
The Tensions of Modernity
Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene
Archaeology and slave resistance and rebellion
Some Home Truths on Household Size and Wealth
The Old Icelandic Land Registers
Archaeological Approaches to the Organization of Domestic Labor
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People
Cutting the Network
Culture and History in Medieval Iceland
Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland
Distinguished Lecture in Archeology
The Evolution of Human Societies
On decentring ethnicity in buildings research
How things act
Archaeologies of instability
A patchwork of people, pots and places
Agency, practical politics and the archaeology of culture contact
Political Economy
Household possessions and wealth in agrarian states
Modeling Historic Rangeland Management and Grazing Pressures in Landscapes of Settlement
Entangled
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |