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Decoding Homes and Houses

By Julienne Hanson

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0521572843, 0521543517, 0511518293, 9780511518294, 9780521543514, 9780521572842
LCC
NA7328 .H26 1998
Open Library ID
OL695880M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2322982 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
324\324
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Houses are not just assemblages of individual rooms but intricate patterns of organised space, governed by rules and conventions about the size and configuration of rooms, which domestic activities go together, how the interior should be decorated and furnished and what kinds of household object are appropriate in each setting, how family members relate to one another in different spaces, and how and where guests should be received and entertained in the home. Decoding Homes and Houses introduces new, computer-based techniques designed to retrieve and interpret this wealth of social and symbolic information. The various representations and measures show how domestic space provides a shared framework for everyday life, how social meanings are constructed in the home and how different sub-groups within society differentiate themselves through their patterns of domestic space and lifestyles.

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