House life
Subtitle: space, place, and family in Europe
By: edited by Donna Birdwell-Pheasant and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga.
Contributors: Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna.; Lawrence-Zúñiga, Denise.
Publisher: Berg; Bloomsbury Academic; Berg Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Households -- Europe; Family -- Europe; Dwellings -- Social aspects -- Europe; Dwellings -- Europe -- Design and construction
Other titles: Houselife
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Began as a panel for the 1992 meeting of the American Anthropological Association"--P. xiii.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : houses and families in Europe / Donna Birdwell-Pheasant and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga; title: Part I. House, family, and the construction of history; title: The Casa of José dos Santos Caldas : family and household in a northwestern Portuguese village, 1850-1993 / Caroline B. Brettell; title: Fleeting villages, moving households : Greek housing strategies in historical perspective / Susan Buck Sutton; title: The home 'place' : center and periphery in Irish house and family systems / Donna Birdwell-Pheasant; title: Part II. Houses and the construction of family life; title: Reconstructing sexual geography : gender and space in changing Sicilian settlements / Sally S. Booth; title: Suburbanizing rural lifestyles through house form in southern Portugal / Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga; title: Living spaces in transition : from rural to urban family life in Serbia / Judith A. Rasson, Mirjana Stevanović, and Vladimir Ilić; title: Use of house and space : public and private family interaction on Chios, Greece / Alice V. James and Loukas Kalisperis; title: Part III. House and symbol : the power of constructions; title: Re-entering the west room : on the power of domestic spaces / Lawrence J. Taylor; title: The memory house : time and place in Jewish immigrant culture in France / Joëlle Bahloul.