Abstract
The constructed domestic space is a social product which, at the same time, creates society. The house constitutes a privileged scenario, a way of expression and transmission of behaviours. Nevertheless, it seems very difficult to understand the social space through some archaeological ruins, empty and lacking of third dimension, so the risk to cast a historiographical image previously made over the studied societies is high. The understanding of the social space demands to formalize and discuss the formal patterns of the domestic structures and their grouping forms. This paper deals with the study of the domestic spaces from a linguistic perspective (a grammar of the house), distinguishing the elements into themselves and their combinations. Three different levels of analysis of the domestic fact are defined: the morphological, which tackles the form of the domestic units and the transformations they suffer; the syntactic, which emphasizes the relations between the elemental structures in the framework of an organized spatial structure; and the semiotic, which analyzes them as social expressions, materialization and instrument of cultural meanings. In agreement with this perspective, a methodological reflection is suggested about the characterization of the medieval and Islamic domestic spaces in the Iberian Peninsula; the problems that come from the social use of the space is set out, the domestic patterns and their diachronic, and it is discussed about the house as an Islamization material marker.
Highlights
Palabras clave: Arqueología de los espacios domésticos, Morfología, sintaxis, semiótica, modelos domésticos, entorno construido, tramas urbanas, uso social del espacio, casa islámica, Arqueología medieval, Península Ibérica, al-Andalus
difficult to understand the social space through some archaeological ruins
the risk to cast a historiographical image previously made over the studied societies is high. The understanding of the social space demands to formalize
Summary
Resumen El espacio doméstico construido es un producto social que a su vez crea sociedad. La comprensión del espacio social requiere formalizar y discutir los patrones formales de las estructuras domésticas y sus formas de agrupación. Se definen tres niveles distintos de análisis del hecho doméstico: el morfológico, que se ocupa de la forma de las unidades domésticas y de las transformaciones que experimentan; el sintáctico que enfatiza las relaciones entre las estructuras elementales en el marco de una estructura espacial organizada; y el semiótico, que las analiza como expresiones sociales, materialización e instrumento de significados culturales. De acuerdo a esta perspectiva se propone una reflexión metodológica sobre la caracterización de los espacios domésticos medievales e islámicos en la Península Ibérica; se plantean los problemas derivados del uso social del espacio, los modelos domésticos y su diacronía, y se discute acerca de la casa como indicador material de islamización. Palabras clave: Arqueología de los espacios domésticos, Morfología, sintaxis, semiótica, modelos domésticos, entorno construido, tramas urbanas, uso social del espacio, casa islámica, Arqueología medieval, Península Ibérica, al-Andalus
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