Home, materiality, memory and belonging : keeping culture /

Why do mantelpieces matter? As everyday 'focal points', they offer a unique way into understanding how what matters relates to who matters. Wide-ranging, original, innovative research assembles Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hurdley, Rachel, 1971-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	Group identity. Identity (Psychology) Fireplaces. Manners and customs. Culture. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction: dismantling mantelpieces
Pasts : history, archive and memory
Histories of domestic fire
Mass observation mantelpiece
Materialising memory
Telling identities
Relating the gift
Focal points
Presents : identities, things and home
Others : here, there and everywhere
Defamiliarising home
Genealogies of difference
Conclusion
Epilogue : encounter
Appendix: participants' biographies
Bibliography.