To be at Home : : House, Work, and Self in the Modern World / / ed. by James Williams, Felicitas Hentschke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Addlakha, Renu,; Algazi, Gadi,; Allina, Eric,; Barua, Rukmini,; Bicher, Anne-Katrin,; Bolotova, Alla,; Bruckermann, Charlotte,; Chalhoub, Sidney,; Dougnon, Isaie,; Drotbohm, Heike,; Ehmer, Josef,; Fontes, Paulo,; Fourchard, Laurent,; Griffiths, Anne,; Hentschke, Felicitas,; Houben, Vincent,; Hyslop, Jonathan,; Kremakova, Milena,; Li, Ju,; Lüdtke, Alf,; Maynes, Mary Jo,; Mohapatra, Prabhu,; Pinheiro, Cláudio,; Rao, Anupama,; Rockel, Stephen J.,; Sabean, David Warren,; Schmidt, Jürgen,; Sefalafala, Thabang,; Sinha, Nitin,; Spittler, Gerd,; Varma, Nitin,; Waltner, Ann,; Williams, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Strümpell, Christian,; Sunseri, Thaddeus,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)

Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House,Work, and Self in the Moder...

Table of Contents

• 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