Overview
Home Cultures is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the critical understanding of the domestic sphere, its artifacts, spaces and relations, across timeframes and cultures. Whether as a concept or a physical space, 'home' is a highly fluid and contested site of human existence that reflects and reifies identities and values. The journal aims to promote a conversation about the domestic sphere across the many disciplines in which 'home' forms a key unit of analysis. By generating a site for interdisciplinary discussion and comparative approaches, Home Cultures provides a vital and diverse forum for our general understanding of this vital sphere of human activity.
Full Product Details
Author: Victor Buchli ,
Alison Clarke ,
Dell Upton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Berg Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 17.20cm
, Height: 0.70cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781859738511
ISBN 10: 1859738516
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 01 July 2005
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
'At last, a new international journal that brings together and discusses many aspects of the domestic sphere, such as interior design, architecture, consumption, material culture and anthropology. It will surely be welcomed by scholars and practitioners alike.' Pauline Rae, Library Manager, Royal College of Art Home Cultures' promises to be an innovative scholarly forum for a crucial research area that astonishingly has never yet had its own 'home'. Explorations of the domestic sphere and its boundaries will knit together some of the most exciting interisciplinary threads in material culture, consumption studies, design and many other research agendas.' Don Slater, London School of Economics 'This journal demonstrates the freshness of the insights that await those who direct their attention to homes. Drawing on a wide array of fields, from art, design and architecture to anthropology and history, the articles in 'Home Cultures' show the crucial importance of domestic space to humanity at large.' Benjamin S. Orlove, University of California Davis
"'At last, a new international journal that brings together and discusses many aspects of the domestic sphere, such as interior design, architecture, consumption, material culture and anthropology. It will surely be welcomed by scholars and practitioners alike.' Pauline Rae, Library Manager, Royal College of Art ""Home Cultures' promises to be an innovative scholarly forum for a crucial research area that astonishingly has never yet had its own 'home'. Explorations of the domestic sphere and its boundaries will knit together some of the most exciting interisciplinary threads in material culture, consumption studies, design and many other research agendas.' Don Slater, London School of Economics 'This journal demonstrates the freshness of the insights that await those who direct their attention to homes. Drawing on a wide array of fields, from art, design and architecture to anthropology and history, the articles in 'Home Cultures' show the crucial importance of domestic space to humanity at large.' Benjamin S. Orlove, University of California Davis"
Author Information
Victor Buchli, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University College London. Alison Clarke, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Dell Upton, University of Virginia.
