The Home, The
Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments
Avebury (Publisher)
Published on 4. May 1995
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-85628-888-0 (ISBN)
Description
These new writings by leading theorists and empirical researchers offer an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural spectrum of viewpoints on the study of the home concept. Among the disciplines covered are environment-behaviour research, anthropology, geography, archaeology, architecture, political science, and linguistics-place name research. Although its history goes back to the pre-Roman Iron Age, and has been the subject of scholarly study for over three hundred years, the home is still a contentious term, topical now because of civil and military strife over traditional homelands, and central to the debate concerning the environmental impact of settlement vs. domestic comfort, and the contemplation of Ivan lllich's 'shadow work'. The authors in this volume focus on refining our concepts of home, our knowledge of the uses of home, and the relationship of home to the study of cultural interpretation. In so doing, they inspire our thinking on the following themes: the struggle to maintain cultural continuity in the face of socio-political change, and the attempts to humanize the present and future built environment.
This volume will be interesting to all scholars of cultural interpretation, geographers, and architects, and at the same time useful in graduate studies courses in environmental social sciences and environmental design as reference and source of cutting edge case studies.
This volume will be interesting to all scholars of cultural interpretation, geographers, and architects, and at the same time useful in graduate studies courses in environmental social sciences and environmental design as reference and source of cutting edge case studies.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps,plans
Dimensions
Height: 1 mm
Width: 1 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85628-888-0 (9781856288880)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
Introduction
University of Trondheim, Norway and International University of Mexico, USA
Foreword
Content
Home - toward a definition of the concept; home as a cultural interpretation tool; home as reflection of societal contention and change; home and houses - lessons from the past for the present.