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Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors book cover

1st Edition

Home Possessions Material Culture Behind Closed Doors

Edited By Daniel Miller Copyright 2001
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge
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Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is just up to us to decorate, transform and construct our homes, but in this book we discover a new form of ‘estate agency', the active participation of the home and its material culture in the construction... Read more

1 Behind Closed Doors, Part 1 Mobile Homes, 2 Aesthetics of Social Aspiration, 3 Organized Disorder: Moving Furniture in Norwegian Homes, 4 The Refurbishment of Memory, 5 The Taste of Home, Part II Estate Agency, 6 Possessions, 7 Home Sweet Home: Tangible Memories of an Uprooted Childhood, Part III Building Relationships, 8 Building Conjugal Relations: The Devotion to Houses amongst the Paiwan of Taiwan, 9 A Man will get Furnished: Wood and Domesticity in Urban Romania ,10 The 'Untidy' Japanese House

Biography

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology, University College London. Recent books include 'A Theory of Shopping', 'The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach' (with Don Slater) and Ed. 'Car Cultures'.

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