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HousePoetics · House Poetics. An 'assemblage' approach to the production and transmission of value in Bronze Age Crete.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-10-01 → 2019-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 800 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Социалните структури в Крит през бронзовата епоха се анализират чрез модела на „къщата“ като група от хора и идеи, обединени от общо имущество и репутация. Това помага да се разбере как определени колективни идентичности са оцеляли при големи gesellschaftliche промени.

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House Poetics. An 'assemblage' approach to the production and transmission of value in Bronze Age Crete.

HOUSE POETICS examines how value is created in society, arguing that it is not defined simply in material terms but should be situated in the relations that build alliances, reputations and symbolic wealth. It explores the value regimes that tie people together, validate social interactions, sanction rules and obligations, and ensure the prosperity of a social group. Houses, as intergenerational social groups that grow around a material and symbolic estate not restricted by biological kinship, are a good analytic category for addressing this question. Houses draw their power from their members and their longevity, but none of these features are adequately explained by existing theories: if House membership is not restricted to biological ties, what mechanisms bring such groups together? How is their tendency to grow continuously (and therefore be flexible and adaptable) reconciled with their conscious efforts to endure over time, and therefore to resist change? A perspective that helps us understand how groupings of things, people, energy flows, and ideas (such as those represented by Houses) come about and are constantly reconfigured through new relations is Assemblage theory. But Assemblage theory does not explain why some assemblages endure in time and are not constantly dissolved and remade as something else. HOUSE POETICS used a combined ‘Houses-as-assemblages’ model to explain why social practices that emphasised particular kinds of collective identities persisted through periods of drastic social change in Bronze Age Cretan society. The objectives of the project were: a) to construct a theoretical model for examining how Houses create and transmit value; b) to develop a methodology for grasping the relations that bring Houses into being; c) to understand how Houses can change through time and vary in their spatial expressions. Overall, HOUSE POETICS aimed to redefine the practices of kinship, understood as broad processes of social as well as biological solidarity. HOUSE POETICS tackles a question pertaining equally to society today, by looking at the interplay between links and boundaries: how specific social practices (e.g. burial practices; production techniques and technological traditions; kinship) link different fields of action thereby generating the boundaries that define a group. This approach helps us understand why some social practices are more valued than others for constructing group identities.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The Project explores the fundamental social question of the creation of value, by investigating House Societies in Bronze Age Crete (3100-1200 BC). Houses are understood as intergenerational, locus-bound social groups, holding an estate of material and symbolic wealth, transmitted along a real or imaginary line, legitimized by kinship or affinity, or both. Because of their distinct focus on the creation and transmission of value, Houses are an ideal framework for answering this research question, but their longevity makes it difficult to explain change. By fusing Houses with the philosophical and sociological premises of Assemblage theory, which argues that social entities are not fixed but constituted by relationships between humans, non-humans and materials that can territorialize and deterritorialize value, the project creates a new social ontology which perceives Houses in a constant state of becoming, continuously affecting and being affected by the changing social world they inhabit. The methodological advantage of this interdisciplinary model, combining philosophical, sociological, archaeological and scientific perspectives, will be demonstrated empirically through the integrated use of GIS spatial analysis and material culture analysis, in a series of case studies (selected on the basis of availability of good contextual information for primary data and a large corpus of published evidence) targeting three strategic scales of House formation and interaction: a single site (Petras), its regional context (East Crete) and their broader geopolitical networks (the Aegean and the East Mediterranean). Using GIS to explore Houses as Assemblages will offer an original integration of spatial, material and social scales, which can revitalize our understanding of past societies and transform the study of social relations in general.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN · LOUVAIN LA NEUVEКоординаторБелгия