... service at particular moments. Two major areas of memory are explored; first, the televisual depictions of service within situation comedies, dramas, feature films, and reality television, and second, the heritage performances within British ‘great house’ properties. Drawing on interviews with curators...

... villages Sand Canyon Pueblo Wolfe Eric agents archaeologists critical population threshold optimality populations human behavior subsistence intensification temperature violence increasing returns to scale cooperation intensification great houses Chaco turkey Village Ecodynamics Project...

... masonry buildings called “Great Houses,” enormously larger than any other buildings of Chaco's time. The largest Chaco Canyon Great Houses were huge, symmetrical, geometric structures covering acres of leveled land, with as many as 700 rooms stacked up five stories tall. Chaco Great Houses began about...

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... to the Arkestra ethos and aesthetic. These new members formed the so-called Great Houses which became community art centers. The Arkestra also became associated with the Immanuel United Church of Christ (IUCC) and its socially conscious minister, the Reverend Edgar Edwards, who offered the church as a regular...

... not extend as far as the coast (Figure 1). Not all those regions can be observed from a single point. In order to appreciate the full extent of the view, it is necessary to move between a series of ancient monuments. Art styles Beltane Castro Culture Ethnography Fire cult Great Houses Henges Impressed...

... (Cassen et al. 1998). Boyne Valley Carnac Great Houses Henges Le Grand Menhir Brisé Megalithic art Standing stones The starting point for this chapter is a work by the German artist Joseph Beuys. ‘7000 oaks’ is an installation which he inaugurated at Kassel, a city that had been damaged during...

... together in the light of a recent analysis of monumental architecture in the eastern USA. Both sections are designed to complement one another. The first considers the development of Great Houses in a series of well-populated landscapes. The second works at a larger geographical scale and studies the ways...