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The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains, and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of "things." This cutting-edge work examines the current state of material culture as well as how this field of study may be extended and developed in the future.
Home Furnishing and Domestic Interiors
Home Furnishing and Domestic Interiors
To survey furnishings and interiors requires the neat modifiers of home and domestic as a means of limiting discussion. Whether one investigates these materials circulating in either historical or ethnographic time and space – or both – they share a common principle: namely both furnishings and the ways in which particular artifacts – beds, chairs, tables, carpets, lighting devices, television sets, among others – are used to define interior spaces depend on domesticating objects made by others to one's own social position and expressive style. In order to situate their study, this chapter will first ground them in the historical process of enclosure, as we have come to understand its grip on the material life of ...
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