Home: The Foundations of Belonging

ISBN-13: 9781138633148 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 198 str.

Paul O'Connor

Opis

This book offers an anthropological and historical perspective on home. Beginning with a vision of modernity as characterised by both spiralling liminality and an ongoing quest for belonging, it plumbs the roots of western civilisation and assembles a wide body of comparative evidence to illuminate the foundations of a sense of home. Home is theorised as a stable centre around which we organise routines and perspectives on reality, bringing order to a chaotic world and overcoming liminality. It thus occupies the position of a foundational sociological and anthropological concept at a moment when the crisis of globalisation has opened the way to a cultural revaluation of the local.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  1. Antaeus and Hercules;  2. The web of meaning;  3. The cultivation of place;  4. The landscape of memory;  5. Habits of home;  6. A sacred economy;  7. Gifting and recognition;  8. The boundaries of home;  9. Parish and province;  Conclusion: the future of home

O autorze

Paul O'Connor completed his PhD at University College Cork. He is currently assistant professor of sociology at the United Arab Emirates University, where he specialises in cultural sociology.