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Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture

Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture

by Rachel Hurdley
Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture
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Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture

Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture

by Rachel Hurdley

Overview

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.  

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137312952
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 05/07/2013
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 270
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of 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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