Home: The Foundations of Belonging

This book offers an anthropological and historical perspective on home. Beginning with a vision of modernity as characterised by both spiralling liminality and an ongoing quest for belonging, it plumbs the roots of western civilisation and assembles a wide body of comparative evidence to illuminate the foundations of a sense of home. Home is theorised as a stable centre around which we organise routines and perspectives on reality, bringing order to a chaotic world and overcoming liminality. It thus occupies the position of a foundational sociological and anthropological concept at a moment when the crisis of globalisation has opened the way to a cultural revaluation of the local.

Sommario

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Antaeus and Hercules; 2. The web of meaning; 3. The cultivation of place; 4. The landscape of memory; 5. Habits of home; 6. A sacred economy; 7. Gifting and recognition; 8. The boundaries of home; 9. Parish and province; Conclusion: the future of home

Info autore

Paul O'Connor completed his PhD at University College Cork. He is currently assistant professor of sociology at the United Arab Emirates University, where he specialises in cultural sociology.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul O'Connor, Paul (Irish Centre for Applied Patient O''connor, Paul (United Arab Emirates University O''connor
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138633148
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63314-8
• Pagine: 208
• Serie: Contemporary Liminality
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Archaeology, Social and cultural anthropology