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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction / Hentschke, Felicitas / Williams, James
- Section 1: Homes and Mobility: Borders, Boundaries, Thresholds
- Shoes Painfully Small: Material and Maternal (Dis)comfort in Cape Verdean Remittance Houses / Drotbohm, Heike
- Hostel, Home, and 'Life-Rhythm' for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall / Allina, Eric
- Kinship and Displacement in Post-War Liberia: Children's Lives in an IDP Camp / Williams, James
- Making Home in the Industrialized Russian Arctic / Bolotova, Alla
- Section 2: Houses, Work, and Everyday Life: Rhythms, Ruptures, Cycles
- Constructing Middle-Class Milieus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Labor of Geselligkeit / Sabean, David Warren
- Home-Making among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in the Sahara / Spittler, Gerd
- Living in Homes, but What Kinds and Whose? Single Young People in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe / Ehmer, Josef
- Experiences of Wagelessness and the Meaning of Wage Work in the Free State Goldfields, South Africa / Sefalafala, Thabang
- Spinning Yarn: The Changing Place of Girls' Work in Chinese and European History / Maynes, Mary Jo / Waltner, Ann
- Section 3: Construction, Demolition, Relocation
- Subaltern Urbanism, or Dwelling and the Unhoused: Histories of Housing in the United States and India / Rao, Anupama
- Evicted in Dar es Salaam: From Tanganyika Packers to Uptown Kawe / Sunseri, Thaddeus
- The Changing Faces of a Village: Italian Migrant Workers' Families in Lorraine / Hentschke, Felicitas
- Remaking Homes and Reproducing Inequalities in an Eastern Indian Steel Town / Strümpell, Christian
- Closed Constructions: The Apartheid Architecture of Migrant Hostels in Gauteng / Bicher, Anne-Katrin
- Section 4: The Power of Place: Space, Exclusions, Vulnerability
- The Naqab/Nagev, Israel: Rebuilding Demolished Homes / Algazi, Gadi
- Public-Private Continuities and Alternate Domesticities: Welfare 'Homes' in India / Addlakha, Renu
- Land as a Site for Creating a Home: A Cautionary Tale from Botswana / Griffiths, Anne
- Homes and Colonial Violence in the Dutch East Indies: The Coolie Pondok / Houben, Vincent
- The Home and the World: Slavery and Domestic Labor in a Nineteenth-Century East African Caravan Town / Rockel, Stephen J.
- Section 5: Houses and Selves: Nostalgia, Imagination, Memory
- A Woman and a Nation: A Story of Work and Home in China / Li, Ju
- A House for a Missing Self: Nostalgia for Slavery and Its Times in Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro / Chalhoub, Sidney
- From Forecastle to Folk Club: The Homeless Seafarer / Hyslop, Jonathan
- The Home and the World in Indian Folksongs of Marriage and Migration / Sinha, Nitin
- Section 6: Networks, Neighborhoods, Communities
- 'The Land of Boarding Houses': Migrant Workers and Collective Dwellings in São Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1970 / Fontes, Paulo
- The Enlarged Parlor? Structures and Varieties of German Working-Class Housing around 1900 / Schmidt, Jürgen
- Legacies of Housing in Ahmedabad's Industrial East: The Chawl and the Slum / Barua, Rukmini
- 'Refugees Welcome': German Civil Society and the Day of Arrival of One Million Refugees / Hentschke, Felicitas
- Section 7: Being at Home in the World: Thinking with Houses and Homes
- Making Home on the High Seas: Bulgarian Seafarers between Ship and Shore / Kremakova, Milena
- Owning a Home in Bamako: To Be at Home after Death / Dougnon, Isaie
- From Ancestral Tablets to Patriotic Portraits: Remembering Kinship in Rural Chinese Homes / Bruckermann, Charlotte
- Unhomely Afterlives: The Works and Lives of Rabindranath Tagore / Pinheiro, Cláudio
- Reflections I
- Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India / Varma, Nitin
- Reflections II
- On Homes, Work, and Personhood: An Interview with Prabhu Mohapatra / Mohapatra, Prabhu / Hentschke, Felicitas / Varma, Nitin
- On Photography and History: An Interview with Alf Lüdtke / Lüdtke, Alf / Hentschke, Felicitas / Williams, James
- Reflections III
- Why Homes Still Matter: Thoughts on Mamphela Ramphele's A Bed Called Home / Fourchard, Laurent
- Contributor Biographies
- Picture Credits
- Index