Agglomerated Settlements
Bitter Orange
Bitter Orange Trees
Built Environment
built forms
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Dense
domestic architecture
Domestic Memory
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European anthropology
family dynamics in built environments
Great Famine
Hilltops
Home Place
House Forms
house life
households
human interactions
intergenerational inheritance
kinship studies
Larger Family
Maria Das Dores
material culture analysis
Modern Greek History
Modern Kitchen
Modern Suburban House
Northwestern Portugal
physical surroundings
Pigeon Roost
Roost
Rua Direita
Sala De
Social Reproduction
spatial organisation
West Room
Western Sicily
Wine Vats
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781859732359
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book, which fills a gap on the materiality of lived relations, examines households within the context of their immediate physical surroundings of home and shows how human interactions are reflected in built forms. Houses are dynamic participants in family life in many ways. They often pre-date the origins and outlast the life spans of their inhabitants, but they can exert a powerful influence on the organization of behaviors and the values of family members, as well as on the forms and flows of family life across the generations. Constituting wealth, investment, security and inheritance, they are an objective in and of themselves in many domestic strategies. Drawing on developments within anthropology, archaeology, architecture and social history, the authors demonstrate, through detailed case studies, how household or family relations can usefully be mined to re-situate social theory in both space and time. Space, boundaries, family cycles, historic changes, migration patterns, ethnicity, memory and gender are all interrogated for the light they shed on how people interact with the physical world around them and what this means culturally and symbolically. Europe is an especially rich focus for this kind of analysis because it is distinguished by its long, well-documented history and a recent period of intense change.
Donna Birdwell-Pheasant, Lamar University Denise Lawrence-Züniga, California State Polytechnic University
