OIKOS

On 30 May 2018 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for an international workshop entitled OIKOS: Archaeological approaches to House Societies in the ancient Aegean, to be held on 6-7 December 2018 at the UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, organized by AEGIS. Abstracts may be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18579/. Contributions are sought that discuss, embellish, and debate the usefulness of the House Society model in the context of the ancient Aegean in any of the following fields of investigation (although by no means limited to these areas)
• House membership. Approaches that consider the constitution of Houses from a number of perspectives including: kinship, funerary behavior, bioarchaeology, architecture/spatial patterning, gender dynamics, marriage patterns, population mobility.
• The role of Houses in political and economic organization. How might collective action, alliance, co-operation, and integration affect the organization of production, the allocation of resources; trade and exchange patterns; and administration?
• Material culture is a key component in the definition of Houses as social entities. Can the study of ancient technology and craft production be approached from a House Society perspective?
• Ritual and symbolic expressions of House identity; aspects of ancestor veneration, heirlooms; religion, cult.
• Diachronic perspectives: continuity and disruption in activities associated with Houses; conflict and violence; the configuration and transformation of territories; the shaping of physical and social landscapes.
• The value of ethnography and analogy, critical approaches to ethnoarchaeology.