This review highlights archaeological investigations of precontact and historic house sites in Polynesia, a region noted for its diversity of chiefdoms in terms of scale and elaboration. Anthropological and historical perceptions of the Polynesian household have shifted over time, influencing the ways in which the household has been defined in archaeology. Early research emphasized houses as a unit of study within settlement pattern archaeology and as a means of delineating formal variability between sites and communities. Current studies stress a more holistic view of the household as a nexus of economic, social, and ritual activities. Diverse theoretical perspectives, such as the analytical concept of house societies, feminist archaeologies, landscape approaches, and agent-based models, have led to new archaeological approaches engaged with both the material and the nonmaterial aspects of the house and, in particular, how social relations structure the household. Current prominent themes include functional identification of house sites, understanding social variability, articulation of the household with the community, and comparative analyses of social complexity.

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波利尼西亚的家庭考古：历史背景与新方向

这篇评论着重介绍了波利尼西亚对预接触和历史民居遗址的考古调查，该地区以规模和精心制作的领地多样性而著称。波利尼西亚家庭的人类学和历史观念随着时间的推移发生了变化，从而影响了考古学中对该家庭的定义方式。早期的研究强调房屋是定居模式考古学中的一个研究单元，并且是划定场所与社区之间形式差异的一种手段。当前的研究强调将家庭作为经济，社会和礼仪活动的纽带，从整体上看。各种理论观点，例如房屋社会的分析概念，女权主义考古学，景观方法和基于主体的模型，导致了新的考古学方法涉及房屋的物质和非物质方面，尤其是社会关系如何构成家庭。当前的突出主题包括房屋所在地的功能识别，了解社会变异性，家庭与社区的联系以及对社会复杂性的比较分析。