Resumen de Etnoarqueología de la vivienda en África subsahariana: aspectos simbólicos y sociales.
From its very beginnings, Ethnoarchaeology in Africa has largely focused in technological issues. In doing so, it has left out of its aims one of the richest vernacular architectures in the world. Africa offers a privileged ground of study for the analysis of the social and symbolic use of domestic space, which has a growing importance in archaeology and anthropology since the middle 1980s. Through a selected number of well studied examples, we adress some of the questions archaeologists should have in mind when analising domestic sites. Although Ethnoarchaeology might provide the archaeologist with new insights about prehistoric contexts, we must not forget the potential that material culture studies have in offering different perspectives of the preindustrial culture we are dealing with.
