CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, NYU
MAY 9-10, 2008
This conference seeks to shed new light on the formation patterns and structural differences and similarities between family and household in ancient societies from the western Mediterranean to China. In an attempt to initiate conversations between ancient historians, archaeologists, and social anthropologists of all regions and periods of the ancient world, the conference welcomes papers from across disciplines. Comparative approaches and proposals that use new methods of analysis or interpretation of documentary evidence, are particularly welcome.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
* Cross-disciplinary definitions of households (beyond Hajnal’s and Laslett’s models of nuclear, extended and joint families)
* Physical configurations of houses/households
* Household formations: Ideals and Reality (e.g. the influence of demographic regimes, social class and economic forces)
* oeconomia: household as enterprise (labor recruitment, migration and the
gendered division of labor)
* Inter- and intragenerational conflict and support within the household (hierarchy, authority and rules of succession)
All papers are limited to a reading time of twenty minutes and will be followed by twenty minutes of discussion. By November 30, proposals (not to exceed the equivalent of one page, typewritten double-spaced) should be sent with contact information to either Anna Boozer, Sabine Huebner, or Jinyu Liu at:
ISAW - Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Email: isaw.household.conference AT nyu.edu
Website: http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/householdconference.htm
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, NYU
MAY 9-10, 2008
This conference seeks to shed new light on the formation patterns and structural differences and similarities between family and household in ancient societies from the western Mediterranean to China. In an attempt to initiate conversations between ancient historians, archaeologists, and social anthropologists of all regions and periods of the ancient world, the conference welcomes papers from across disciplines. Comparative approaches and proposals that use new methods of analysis or interpretation of documentary evidence, are particularly welcome.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
* Cross-disciplinary definitions of households (beyond Hajnal’s and Laslett’s models of nuclear, extended and joint families)
* Physical configurations of houses/households
* Household formations: Ideals and Reality (e.g. the influence of demographic regimes, social class and economic forces)
* oeconomia: household as enterprise (labor recruitment, migration and the
gendered division of labor)
* Inter- and intragenerational conflict and support within the household (hierarchy, authority and rules of succession)
All papers are limited to a reading time of twenty minutes and will be followed by twenty minutes of discussion. By November 30, proposals (not to exceed the equivalent of one page, typewritten double-spaced) should be sent with contact information to either Anna Boozer, Sabine Huebner, or Jinyu Liu at:
ISAW - Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Email: isaw.household.conference AT nyu.edu
Website: http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/householdconference.htm