ABSTRACT

The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, in which the site is situated and which has responsibility for its management, even explicitly encourages this kind of conceptual division by promoting visits to the site as an opportunity to 'step back in time', encounter 'living history' and 'experience life in the Iron Age first hand by helping a Celtic lady with her daily tasks'. Yet, despite calls, prompted by a reaction against an overreliance on the classical and early medieval Welsh and Irish sources, to detribalize models of Iron Age social organization and for less hierarchical conceptions of their political structures, African models of social and political organization, such as those found within segmentary societies, are still invoked. Critically, just as Pierre Bourdieu observed for the Kabyle house, Andrew Fitzpatrick argued that the structuring of household space had its own temporal rhythms governed by the rising and setting of the sun and the annual cycle of the seasons.