An Archaeology Of Modernization: The Cultural Transformation In Galicia (NW Spain) Through Architecture And Domestic Material Culture.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

My doctoral researh studies the processes of modernization of the rural world in the Iberian northwest, from the eighteenth century to the present, analyzing the domestic space of four different case studies. Its objective is to examine the extent to which the house participates in these processes, since it is a key element in the extension and naturalization of modernity in the rural communities.

The research focuses, therefore, on the dwelling, understood as a material device ─the building and its spatiality─, social ─the family unit─ and productive ─as the basic cell of peasant production─. Thus, I attend not only to the house but to all domestic material culture, in use or abandoned. In this way, I analyze diachronically the modernization processes of peasant communities, interpreting the changes and continuities in the daily life of family and community structures.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Archaeology/Architecture

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow