- Title
- By clans and households: on the malleability of the kinship-household in the ancient Near East
- Creator
- Boer, Roland
- Relation
- Memoria Ethnologica Vol. 48-49, p. 6-21
- Relation
- http://www.memoria-ethnologica.ro/en/detalii/printre-clanuri-%C5%9Fi-gospod%C4%83rii-despre-maleabilitatea-gospod%C4%83riilor-organizate-pe-baz%C4%83-de-rudenie
- Publisher
- Centrul Judetean Pentru Conservarea si Promovarea Culturii Traditionale Maramures
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This study offers a new interpretation of the structures of the kinship-household in the ancient Southwest Asia (ancient Near East, 3000-333 BC). Drawing on the insights of Henri Lefebvre's "rhythmanalysis," it seeks to counter the tendency to see the kinship-household in static terms - as a family living in a self-contained dwelling. The analysis focuses on the collective nature of the kinship-household, the function of and reasons for the malleability of genealogies, and the flexibility of constantly reproduced space. It closes by considering a tell-tale instance of that flexibility, namely, the "cult comer." The importance of the kinship-household lies in social determination of the economic reality of subsistence survival: through religion and cultural assumptions, customary law, division of labor, and social sanction, it determined who does what where and who receives what from whom.
- Subject
- kinship; household; ancient Southwest Asia (Near East); genealogies; flexibility; cult corner
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059400
- Identifier
- uon:16593
- Identifier
- ISSN:1582-8573
- Language
- eng
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