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InHabit

People, Places and Possessions

by Antony Buxton (Volume editor) Linda Hulin (Volume editor) Jane Anderson (Volume editor)
©2017 Edited Collection X, 276 Pages

Summary

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.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author(s)/editor(s)
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • List of 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
  • Series index

Details

Pages
X, 276
Publication Year
2017
ISBN (PDF)
9781787072312
ISBN (ePUB)
9781787072329
ISBN (MOBI)
9781787072336
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034318662
DOI
10.3726/b11432
Language
English
Publication date
2017 (February)
Keywords
habitation habitus socio-spacial dynamic material culture domesticity architectural history interior design social history archaeology anthropology literature
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2017. X, 276 pp., 15 b/w ill., 1 table, 8 fig.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Antony Buxton (Volume editor) Linda Hulin (Volume editor) Jane Anderson (Volume editor)

Antony Buxton is an ethno-historian who lectures on design history, material and domestic culture in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. His foremost research interest is the way in which spatial context and objects articulate values and social relationships, as explored in Domestic Culture in Early Modern England (2015). Linda Hulin is an archaeologist and research officer at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology in the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her principal ongoing research interest is the intersection of mariner networks and the creation of value. Jane Anderson is an architect and Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. The author of Architectural Design (2011), her research interests include the relationship between reality and imagination in architecture, and interdisciplinary connections and collaborations between art, literature, music and architecture.

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