InHabit : people, places and possessions /
Buxton, Antony,1950-editor.
Hulin, Linda,editor.
Anderson, Jane,1973-editor.
Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perpectives on human habitation from fields such as archaeology, material culture, art and design, and architecture, providing compelling examples of the potential for interdisciplinary conversations on the subject.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Contents; Figures; Introduction (Antony Buxton / Linda Hulin / Jane Anderson); The engagement with habitation by various disciplines; Inter- or pluridisciplinary approaches to habitation; Developing themes and discourse; Bibliography; Part I: Conceptualising Habitation; 1. InHabiting Space: Archaeologists, Objects and Architecture (Linda Hulin); House and home; Architecture and behaviour; Archaeology and behaviour; Bibliography; 2. Uncertain Futures, Obscure Pasts: The Relationship between the Subject and the Object in the Praxis of Archaeology and Architectural Design (Jane Anderson)
IntroductionArchitecture and archaeology; A literary perspective on the relationship between subject and object; A philosophical perspective on the relationship between subject and object; The effect of the architect or archaeologist in the dynamic between subject and object; Case study: Atelier Bow Wow; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; 3. Furnitecture (Andrea Placidi); Furnitecture; Definition of the term 'Furnitecture'; The application of furnitecture; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part II: Practising Habitation
4. You Are Where You Eat: Worldview and the Public/Private Preparation and Consumption of Food (Wendy Morrison)Introduction; Public and private space; Understanding worldview; An example from Roman Britain; Discussion; Bibliography; 5. London in Pieces: A Biography of a Lost Urban Streetscape (Matthew Jenkins / Charlotte Newman); A London streetscape: Discovering Tilney Street; A social context: Tilney Street and Mayfair; Ladies, earls and spinsters: A story of Tilney Street and its form, function and use; 1 Tilney Street; 4 Tilney Street; 3 Tilney Street; 5 Tilney Street; 2 Tilney Street
ConclusionAbbreviations; Bibliography; Primary sources; Published secondary sources; Unpublished secondary sources; 6. Feasts and Triumphs: The Structural Dynamic of Elite Social Status in the English Country House (Antony Buxton); Late medieval 'estate' and early modern emergent comfort: Horizontal internal hierarchy; The house of the sixteenth-century humanist courtier: Elevated discrimination; Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century aristocratic discernment: Horizontal and vertical social filtering; Mid-eighteenth-century social peer association: Horizontal circulation
Victorian upper-middle-class moral probity and material management: Systematised nucleated engagementConclusion; Bibliography; 7. Miracle Kitchens and Bachelor Pads: The Competing Narratives of Modern Spaces (Rebecca Devers); Bibliography; Part III: Diminished Habitation; 8. A Home on the Waves: The Archaeology of Seafaring and Domestic Space (Damian Robinson); Introduction; Performance, safety and transient domestic space; Domestic space and maritime archaeology; The Mary Rose; The Serçe Limanı ship; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography
Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perpectives on human habitation from fields such as archaeology, material culture, art and design, and architecture, providing compelling examples of the potential for interdisciplinary conversations on the subject.
Human geography
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Human geography
InHabit.
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