Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change offers new perspectives on the processes of social change from the standpoint of household archaeology.

List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgement; Chapter 1: Introduction: Global Comparative Approaches to Households and Change in Past Societies; Chapter 2: Perspectives: Households as Assemblages; Chapter 3: Pottery, Social Memory, and Household Cooperation in the Woodland-Period Southeast US; Chapter 4: Household Dynamics and the Reproduction of Early Village Societies in Northwest Argentina (200 BC-AD 850); Chapter 5: Houses of Power: Community Houses and Specialized Houses as Markers of Social Complexity in the Pre-Contact Society Island Chiefdoms; Chapter 6: Perspectives: Situating Households within Broader Networks; Chapter 7: Mitigating Stress through Organizational Change in a Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde Alcove Village; Chapter 8: Collective Action, Cooperation, and Olmec Sociopolitical Organization: A Household Archaeology Approach; Chapter 9: Monumentality of Houses: Collective Action, Inequality, and Kinship in Pithouse Construction; Chapter 10: Perspectives: Household-Centered Approaches to Transformative Change; Chapter 11: The Persistence of Sedentism throughout Cahokia's Urban Moment: Historical Materialism and Insights into the Dominant Built Form; Chapter 12: The Spaces and Networks Between Households; Chapter 13: Changes in Household Organization and the Development of Classic Period Mimbres Pueblos; Chapter 14: New Roles, New Rules: Elite Residence, Succession to Public Office, and Political Evolution in Oaxaca; Chapter 15: Conclusion: Reflections and Implications; Index.