SUMMARY: Between the 11th and 19th centuries, household archaeology in Iceland comprises rural, dispersed farmsteads notable for their boundedness and stability, suggesting productive and reproductive autonomy. Insights from Actor-Network Theory and entanglement theory help ‘disassemble’ this assumption by shifting our focus first to the agencies, flows and dependences that comprise a political economy without assuming the household’s relations of production a priori. Architecture, settlement patterns, landscape and midden accumulations from the Langholt region in Skagafjörður, North Iceland, along with historical data illustrate that households in Iceland are actually marked by social dissolution, alienation and instability through dramatic political-economic dis- and re-assembling which in turn produces the stability in the material manifestation of the household. These data caution against a simple relationship between the household and archaeological farmstead, and suggest that measures of dependency and instability are critical to a comparative method for unravelling entanglements between capitalist and non-capitalist political economies.

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为冰岛考古重建家园：对比较政治经济学的贡献

摘要：在11至19世纪之间，冰岛的家庭考古包括农村分散的农庄，这些农庄以其有限度和稳定性而著称，表明了生产和生殖自治。行为者网络理论和纠缠理论的见解通过将我们的关注点首先转移到构成政治经济学的代理机构，流动和依赖关系上，而无需假设家庭的生产关系是先验的，从而有助于“分解”这一假设。冰岛北部Skagafjörður的Langholt地区的建筑，定居模式，景观和中间堆积物，以及历史数据表明，冰岛的家庭实际上具有社会解体的特征，通过戏剧性的政治经济分解和重新组合而疏远和不稳定，这反过来又使家庭的物质表现形式稳定。这些数据提醒人们不要在家庭和考古农庄之间建立简单的关系，并建议依赖和不稳定的措施对于消除资本主义和非资本主义政治经济之间的纠缠的比较方法至关重要。