inHabit: archaeologists, architects and objects
This paper seeks to outline the tension between the idea of home and its material expression. The argument moves from the ways in which archaeologists have moved from narrative descriptions of the home to the household as an economic unit and shows how this has reflected changing interests in the di...
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Peter Lang
2016
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| Summary: | This paper seeks to outline the tension between the idea of home and its material expression. The argument moves from the ways in which archaeologists have moved from narrative descriptions of the home to the household as an economic unit and shows how this has reflected changing interests in the discipline as a whole. The discussion then turns to architecture's view buildings as agents of social transformation and the expression of domestic life, and in particular the way in which the contents of houses act in that process. This brings the argument back to the way in which archaeology can approach objects within houses and how they work with the space in which they are placed to support feelings of home. |
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