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To be at home : house, work, and self in the modern world /
"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 accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Work in global and historical perspective ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110580136 9783110582765 3110582767 3110580136 |