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To Be at Home : House, Work, and Self in the Modern World by James Williams (editor), Felicitas Hentschke (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is To Be at Home : House, Work, and Self in the Modern World about?

"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 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"

Who reads To Be at Home : House, Work, and Self in the Modern World?

Author

James Williams (editor), Felicitas Hentschke (editor)

Publisher

Walter De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110582765

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Home & Lifestyle, Gender Studies