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House life : space, place and family in Europe
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- Creator
- edited by Donna Birdwell-Pheasant and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781859732304, 1859732305, 9781859732359, 1859732356
- OCLC
- ocm41970477
- "Began as a panel for the 1992 meeting of the American Anthropological Association."--P. xiii.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : houses and families in Europe / Donna Birdwell-Pheasant and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga -- Part I. House, family, and the construction of history -- The Casa of José dos Santos Caldas : family and household in a northwestern Portuguese village, 1850-1993 / Caroline B. Brettell -- Fleeting villages, moving households : Greek housing strategies in historical perspective / Susan Buck Sutton -- The home 'place' : center and periphery in Irish house and family systems / Donna Birdwell-Pheasant -- Part II. Houses and the construction of family life -- Reconstructing sexual geography : gender and space in changing Sicilian settlements / Sally S. Booth -- Suburbanizing rural lifestyles through house form in southern Portugal / Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga -- Living spaces in transition : from rural to urban family life in Serbia / Judith A. Rasson, Mirjana Stevanović, and Vladimir Ilić -- Use of house and space : public and private family interaction on Chios, Greece / Alice V. James and Loukas Kalisperis -- Part III. House and symbol : the power of constructions -- Re-entering the west room : on the power of domestic spaces / Lawrence J. Taylor -- The memory house : time and place in Jewish immigrant culture in France / Joëlle Bahloul