Architectural symbolism and non-verbal communication at upper fort garry

Monks, Gregory G.

doi:10.1007/bf03373532

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“…Both in this house and in the 'chorizo', function and status of the rooms and inhabitants are expressed by means of the location and the use of objects -furniture, pictures, cutlery, mirrors, curtains and so on. This fact shows that the choice of the function for each room is dependent on its inhabitants (Monks, 1992).…”

Section: The Colonial Housementioning

confidence: 96%

“…If we consider housing as a part of architecture -being itself a peculiar type of language (Fletcher, 1989;Grahame, 1995Grahame, , 1997Markus, 1993;Monks, 1992;Parker Pearson and Richards, 1994) -through the analysis of the processes affecting housing, we will be able to understand the significance it has had over time. Human landscape is built and resisted by means of a dialectical game of dominance and resistance (McGuire and Paynter, 1991;Orser and Funari, 2001).…”

Section: ■ Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social archaeology of housing from a Latin American perspective

Funari¹,

Zarankín

2003

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This article discusses the structuring of domination in everyday life, studied through private housing material culture, over a period of several centuries. Our case study deals with the processes of use of space and the changes in middle-class households in Buenos Aires since the late eighteenth century, highlighting both world and Latin American contexts. We show how morphological and spatial changes in households are related both to the wider world capitalist context and to local conditions, shaping people’s lives. We focus on the controlling features of housing, affecting not only the middle classes, but potentially the whole spectrum of social classes. Capitalism tends to individualize space, create private environments, restrict movement and control movement in general, and houses as material artifacts reflect these tendencies. We conclude that the study of Buenos Aires housing enables us to note that there has been a growing tendency to restrict circulation within the house, enforcing a controlling, bourgeois way of life.

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Section: The Colonial Housementioning

confidence: 96%

Section: ■ Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social archaeology of housing from a Latin American perspective

Funari¹,

Zarankín

2003

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…Access to food has long been a manifestation of the power of certain segments of society over others, and knowing that even at its height of activity, those with "power" living at Fort Vancouver numbered only around 40, (allowing for Company officers from other posts, ship's officers, and other visitors [Roberts 1838;Jessett 1959]), an eight acre garden was significantly larger than that required to provide fresh produce for those relatively few powerful people (Loudon 1824). Based on HBC policy, only the Company officers were allowed to enjoy the Garden's food and aesthetic products (Hamilton 2000, Monks 1992. As the HBC was only a quasi-colonial entity which primarly focused on realizing profit, how was this over-sized space justified?…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The HBC as a company was highly stratified socially, employing several methods of maintaining the hierarchy, including differential access to food (Hamilton 2000;Monks 1992;Nelson 2007).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As it was common for the HBC to employ a symmetrical, hierarchical arrangement of buildings within a stockade (Hamilton 2000;Monks 1992), which is based on medieval hierarchical concepts, just as with a geometric Italianate-style garden, locations of elements that are not in evidence can be extrapolated. Based on these concepts, it has been hypothesized that the original Chief…”

Section: Archival Document Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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