InHabit: People, Places and Possessions (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts)

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Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perspectives on human habitation in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, social history, material culture, literature, art and design, and architecture. Significant shared themes are the physical and social structuring of space, practice and agency, consumption and gender, and permanence and impermanence. Topics range from archaeological artefacts to architectural concepts, from Romano-British consumption to the 1950s Playboy apartment, from historical elite habitation to present-day homelessness, from dwelling «on the move» to the crisis of household dissolution, and from interior design to installation art. Not only is this volume a rich resource of varied aspects and contexts of habitation, it also provides compelling examples of the potential for interdisciplinary conversations around significant shared themes. 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) Introduction Architecture 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 Conclusion Abbreviations 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 engagement Conclusion 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 9. Homeless Habitus: An Archaeology of Homeless Places (Rachael Kiddey) Introduction What do we mean by ‘home’ and ‘homeless’? What is street homelessness? Contemporary archaeology: An approach to modern material heritage Habitus in relation to contemporary archaeology The Homeless Heritage project 2009–14 Case studies: Two homeless ‘home’ places Jane’s Hot Skipper Jacko’s multi-storey car park sleeping place Discussion Conclusion Bibliography Part IV: Ruptured Habitation 10. Continuity and Memory: Domestic Space, Gesture and Affection at the Sixteenth-Century Deathbed (Catherine Richardson) Bibliography 11. Don’t Try This at Home: Artists’ Viewing Inhabitation (Stephen Walker) Introduction House, Rachel Whiteread, 1993 Alteration to a Suburban House, Dan Graham, 1978 Splitting, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1974 Don’t try this at home Bibliography Afterword (Frances F. Berdan) Some key themes Adaptation Relationships and context Dynamics and agency The value of interdisciplinary approaches Notes on Contributors Index