Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging [electronic resource] : Keeping Culture /
Hurdley, Rachel.author.
Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction: dismantling mantelpieces -- Pasts : history, archive and memory -- Histories of domestic fire -- Mass observation mantelpiece -- Materialising memory -- Telling identities -- Relating the gift -- Focal points -- Presents : identities, things and home -- Others : here, there and everywhere -- Defamiliarising home -- Genealogies of difference -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : encounter -- Appendix: participants' biographies -- Bibliography.
Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. .
Culture.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Sociology of Culture.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Family.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology, general.