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Households in Context: Part II
Households in Context
Part II
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Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Note on Abbreviations
Introduction: Houses, Households, and Homes: Toward an Archaeology of Dwelling
Part I Households in Spatial Context: Settlements, Neighborhoods, and Urbanism
1. Egyptian Houses in Their Urban and Environmental Contexts: Some Case Studies of the Roman and Late Roman Periods
2. Neighborhood Networks: The Civic and Social Organization of Accessways in Ancient Karanis
3. The Tower Houses of the Hellenistic Period: A Solution to the Urban Pressure within Egyptian Towns and Villages
Part II Households in Social Context: Families, Individuals, and Communities
4. The Papyrus Trail: Houses and Households in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
5. Habitatio: Transfer of Houses and Rights of Residence in Roman Egypt
6. Unsafe Houses in Greco-Roman Egypt: Forms and Locations of Violence
Part III Households in Practice: Production, Consumption, and Discard
7. Modes of Production and Reproduction in Roman-Era Egyptian Villages
8. Domestic Discard: The Making and Unmaking of Romano-Egyptian Houses
Part IV Households in Cosmic Context: Religion and Ritual
9. Figurines and the Material Culture of Domestic Religion
10. The Supernatural Vulnerabilities of Domestic Space in Late Antique Egypt: Perspectives from the “Magical” Corpus
Part V Expanding the Household: Dwelling Practices in Monastic and Military Contexts
11. Three Monks and a House: The Archaeology of Monastic Houses in Byzantine Egypt
12. Domestic Activities in Alternative Settings: The Ptolemaic Fort at Bi’r Samut, Egypt
Afterwords: Perspectives from Pharaonic Egypt and the Greco-Roman World
1. Greco-Roman Households in Pharaonic Perspective
2. Contextualizing Houses, Households, and Homes in the Classical World and Beyond
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