At home: an anthropology of domestic space

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"This volume on domestic space brings together research traditions that have never mingled before: art history, social history, women's studies, design history, architectural history, cultural anthropology, ethnology, sociology, housing sociology, environmental psychology, material cultural studies and consumer studies.... The book displays the varied approaches that can be taken when studying domestic space and is a very interesting read"--On back of cover.

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Introduction: anthropology at home / Irene Cieraad -- Domesticity in dispute: a reconsideration of sources / Heidi de Mare -- Dutch windows: female virtue and female vice / Irene Cieraad -- The ins and outs of the hall: a Parisian example / Céline Rosselin -- "I've always fancied owning me own lion": ideological motivations in external house decoration by recent homeowners / John A. Dolan -- Bringing modernity home: open plan in the British domestic interior / Judy Attfield -- The French two-home project: materialization of family identity / Sophie Chevalier -- Home: the experience of atmosphere / Paul J.J. Pennartz -- Negotiating space in the family home / Moira Munro and Ruth Madigan -- The domestication of laundering / Rudi Laermans and Carine Meulders -- Constructing home: a crossroads of choices / Elizabeth Shove -- "Postmodern" home life / Tim Putnam.