A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group

[EN] This contribution addresses a basic and ubiquitous collective social agent in antiquity between the conjugal family –which was rarely a social unit in itself– and the settlement or local community. The paper delves into such an intermediate and kin-driven social grouping, often materialised as...

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Autor: Blanco González, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
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Palabra clave:Household archaeology
Archaeology of kinship
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spelling A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential GroupBlanco González, AntonioHousehold archaeologyArchaeology of kinship5505.01 Arqueología5504.05 Prehistoria[EN] This contribution addresses a basic and ubiquitous collective social agent in antiquity between the conjugal family –which was rarely a social unit in itself– and the settlement or local community. The paper delves into such an intermediate and kin-driven social grouping, often materialised as a neighbourhood or multi-house aggregate. The text proposes an approach from the standpoint of household archaeology, centring on kinship, with the aim of challenging unquestioned claims and to endorse the target formulas of conviviality with supportive and highly detailed historical information from diverse sources. Such residential group cannot be interpreted as an “extended family” or a “cultural trait”, nor always be reduced to a complete household or corporate unilineal group. The chapter first discusses its underpinnings and interpretative limits and then surveys the literature of two major household archaeological schools in a comparative fashion to focus on a necessarily restrictive selection of well-known and representative case studies. Out of the suite of combinations of residence and descent options, the text concentrates on those multi-functional and self-sufficient composite residential groups involving either subaltern small conjugal dwellings or elite oversized ancillary subunits: mostly virilocal and patrilineal, and some bilocal and bilateral cases, often confused. This sample ranges from decentralised pre-/protohistoric Near Eastern and Mediterranean organisations to Mesoamerican and South American historical state-based polities. Such an exercise highlights key underlying commonalities of this collective social actor in varied settings across time and space, readdresses misguided points in current archaeological literature and suggests prospects for multi-stranded research integrating the domestic and funerary realms.Research project ARQPARENT (PID2019-104349GA-I00, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science.Sidestone Press202520252025info:eu-repo/semantics/bookParthttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/167881reponame:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamancainstname:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)InglésPID2019-104349GA-I00, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:gredos.usal.es:10366/1678812026-06-07T06:28:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group
title A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group
spellingShingle A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group
Blanco González, Antonio
Household archaeology
Archaeology of kinship
5505.01 Arqueología
5504.05 Prehistoria
title_short A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group
title_full A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group
title_fullStr A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group
title_full_unstemmed A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group
title_sort A Kinship-informed Comparative and Worldwide Survey of the Multiple Residential Group
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Blanco González, Antonio
author Blanco González, Antonio
author_facet Blanco González, Antonio
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Household archaeology
Archaeology of kinship
5505.01 Arqueología
5504.05 Prehistoria
topic Household archaeology
Archaeology of kinship
5505.01 Arqueología
5504.05 Prehistoria
description [EN] This contribution addresses a basic and ubiquitous collective social agent in antiquity between the conjugal family –which was rarely a social unit in itself– and the settlement or local community. The paper delves into such an intermediate and kin-driven social grouping, often materialised as a neighbourhood or multi-house aggregate. The text proposes an approach from the standpoint of household archaeology, centring on kinship, with the aim of challenging unquestioned claims and to endorse the target formulas of conviviality with supportive and highly detailed historical information from diverse sources. Such residential group cannot be interpreted as an “extended family” or a “cultural trait”, nor always be reduced to a complete household or corporate unilineal group. The chapter first discusses its underpinnings and interpretative limits and then surveys the literature of two major household archaeological schools in a comparative fashion to focus on a necessarily restrictive selection of well-known and representative case studies. Out of the suite of combinations of residence and descent options, the text concentrates on those multi-functional and self-sufficient composite residential groups involving either subaltern small conjugal dwellings or elite oversized ancillary subunits: mostly virilocal and patrilineal, and some bilocal and bilateral cases, often confused. This sample ranges from decentralised pre-/protohistoric Near Eastern and Mediterranean organisations to Mesoamerican and South American historical state-based polities. Such an exercise highlights key underlying commonalities of this collective social actor in varied settings across time and space, readdresses misguided points in current archaeological literature and suggests prospects for multi-stranded research integrating the domestic and funerary realms.
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