To be at home : house, work, and self in the modern world
Work in global and historical perspective ;
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction / Section 1: Homes and Mobility: Borders, Boundaries, Thresholds -- Shoes Painfully Small: Material and Maternal (Dis)comfort in Cape Verdean Remittance Houses / Hostel, Home, and 'Life-Rhythm' for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall / Kinship and Displacement in Post-War Liberia: Children's Lives in an IDP Camp / Making Home in the Industrialized Russian Arctic / Section 2: Houses, Work, and Everyday Life: Rhythms, Ruptures, Cycles -- Constructing Middle-Class Milieus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Labor of Geselligkeit / Home-Making among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in the Sahara / Living in Homes, but What Kinds and Whose? Single Young People in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe / Experiences of Wagelessness and the Meaning of Wage Work in the Free State Goldfields, South Africa / Spinning Yarn: The Changing Place of Girls' Work in Chinese and European History / Section 3: Construction, Demolition, Relocation -- Subaltern Urbanism, or Dwelling and the Unhoused: Histories of Housing in the United States and India / Evicted in Dar es Salaam: From Tanganyika Packers to Uptown Kawe / The Changing Faces of a Village: Italian Migrant Workers' Families in Lorraine / Remaking Homes and Reproducing Inequalities in an Eastern Indian Steel Town / Closed Constructions: The Apartheid Architecture of Migrant Hostels in Gauteng / Section 4: The Power of Place: Space, Exclusions, Vulnerability -- The Naqab/Nagev, Israel: Rebuilding Demolished Homes / Public-Private Continuities and Alternate Domesticities: Welfare 'Homes' in India / Land as a Site for Creating a Home: A Cautionary Tale from Botswana / Homes and Colonial Violence in the Dutch East Indies: The Coolie Pondok / The Home and the World: Slavery and Domestic Labor in a Nineteenth-Century East African Caravan Town / Section 5: Houses and Selves: Nostalgia, Imagination, Memory -- A Woman and a Nation: A Story of Work and Home in China / A House for a Missing Self: Nostalgia for Slavery and Its Times in Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro / From Forecastle to Folk Club: The Homeless Seafarer / The Home and the World in Indian Folksongs of Marriage and Migration / Section 6: Networks, Neighborhoods, Communities -- 'The Land of Boarding Houses': Migrant Workers and Collective Dwellings in São Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1970 / The Enlarged Parlor? Structures and Varieties of German Working-Class Housing around 1900 / Legacies of Housing in Ahmedabad's Industrial East: The Chawl and the Slum / 'Refugees Welcome': German Civil Society and the Day of Arrival of One Million Refugees / Section 7: Being at Home in the World: Thinking with Houses and Homes -- Making Home on the High Seas: Bulgarian Seafarers between Ship and Shore / Owning a Home in Bamako: To Be at Home after Death / From Ancestral Tablets to Patriotic Portraits: Remembering Kinship in Rural Chinese Homes / Unhomely Afterlives: The Works and Lives of Rabindranath Tagore / Reflections I -- Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India / Reflections II -- On Homes, Work, and Personhood: An Interview with Prabhu Mohapatra / On Photography and History: An Interview with Alf Lüdtke / Reflections III -- Why Homes Still Matter: Thoughts on Mamphela Ramphele's A Bed Called Home / Contributor Biographies -- Picture Credits -- Index
Hentschke, Felicitas, editor.
Williams, James (James R.), Writer on social anthropology, editor.
Hentschke, Felicitas / Williams, James -- Drotbohm, Heike -- Allina, Eric -- Williams, James -- Bolotova, Alla -- Sabean, David Warren -- Spittler, Gerd -- Ehmer, Josef -- Sefalafala, Thabang -- Maynes, Mary Jo / Waltner, Ann -- Rao, Anupama -- Sunseri, Thaddeus -- Hentschke, Felicitas -- Strümpell, Christian -- Bicher, Anne-Katrin -- Algazi, Gadi -- Addlakha, Renu -- Griffiths, Anne -- Houben, Vincent -- Rockel, Stephen J. -- Li, Ju -- Chalhoub, Sidney -- Hyslop, Jonathan -- Sinha, Nitin -- Fontes, Paulo -- Schmidt, Jürgen -- Barua, Rukmini -- Hentschke, Felicitas -- Kremakova, Milena -- Dougnon, Isaie -- Bruckermann, Charlotte -- Pinheiro, Cláudio -- Varma, Nitin -- Mohapatra, Prabhu / Hentschke, Felicitas / Varma, Nitin -- Lüdtke, Alf / Hentschke, Felicitas / Williams, James -- Fourchard, Laurent --
edited by Felicitas Hentschke and James Williams.
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