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Home, materiality, memory and belonging Keeping culture /

Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces o...

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Main Authors: Hurdley, Rachel.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life
Subjects:
Culture.
Home.
Identity (Psychology)
Belonging (Social psychology).
Material culture.
Sociology: family & relationships.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Society.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137312952
Summary: Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home.
Rachel Hurdley on Woman's Hour http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yz54q#p00fgmhg.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230230286, 2013.
Carrier Form: 290 p.
ISBN: 9780230230286
9781137312952 :
1137312955 :
CLC: C912.4
Contents: Introduction: Dismantling Mantelpieces PART I: PASTS: HISTORY, ARCHIVE AND MEMORY 1. Histories of Domestic Fire 2. Mass Observation Mantelpiece 3. Materialising Memory PART II: PRESENTS - ORDERING IDENTITIES , THINGS AND HOME 4. Telling Identities 5. Relating the Gift 6. Focal Points PART III: CULTURES OF 'HOME' - OTHER WAYS OF LOOKING 7. Defamiliarising Home 8. Genealogies of Difference Conclusion: Culture, Clutter, Contemplation Epilogue: Encounter.

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