Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging - Keeping Culture

Zusatztext Rachel Hurdley on Woman's Hour http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yz54q#p00fgmhg "Read it! If you have read it! read it again!" - David Morgan! Emeritus Professor of Sociology! University of Manchester UK "Renovates everyday life ananlysis ... a tour de force." - David Inglis! Professor of Sociology! University of Aberdeen! UK Informationen zum Autor Rachel Hurdley is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, UK. Her research focuses on everyday relations between people, things, space and time, examining how identity, power and culture happen as small processes. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.   Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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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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Rachel Hurdley on Woman's Hour
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yz54q#p00fgmhg
"Read it! If you have read it, read it again!" - David Morgan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester UK
"Renovates everyday life ananlysis ... a tour de force." - David Inglis, Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK

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• Authors: R. Hurdley, Rachel Hurdley
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349311316
• ISBN: 978-1-349-31131-6
• No. of pages: 287
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life; Palgrave MacMillan Studies in; Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Family, Anthropology, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Sociology: family & relationships, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Sociology, general, Regional Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, families, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociocultural Anthropology, Culture—Study and teaching, Families—Social aspects, culture;Europe;identity;memory;Nation