| To Be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World Contributor(s): Williams, James (Editor), Hentschke, Felicitas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110579871 ISBN-13: 9783110579871 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $53.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - History | Social History |
| Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 8.5" W x 11" (2.18 lbs) 301 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World compares the ways people in different societies and historical periods strive to make and keep houses and homes under conditions of change, upheaval, displacement, impoverishment and violence. These conditions speak to the challenges of life in our modern world. The contributors of this volume position the home as a new nodal point between work, the self and the world to explore people's creativity, agency and labour. Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts - if also often elusive - invoking places, persons, objects, emotions, values, attachments and fantasies. This book demonstrates how the relations between houses, work and the self have transformed dramatically and unpredictably under conditions of capitalism and modernity - and continue to change today |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, James: - Felicitas Hentschke, Humboldt University James Williams, Zayed University |