STUDENTS LIVING ABROAD: THE ART OF HOME SHARING
This paper focuses on the students’ experience of home sharing abroad, resulting from exchange programs, especially in what concerns new ways of living, from lifestyle to house rules…
DIALECTICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD: TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTS AS A SOCIAL MEDIATOR
The aim of this paper is to examine a few issues concerning social relationships in (and with) the household. In this context, these relationships take on a specific characteristic: they are mediated by objects, especially technological ones…
“THE WAVE OF A MODERN MAGIC WAND”: GENEALOGIES OF DOMESTIC DÉCOR
Regarding recent decades, certain milestones have taken centre stage in historiographic narratives of Spanish social and cultural history: the political transition to democracy, countercultural and citizen movements and socioeconomic globalization…
CASAS-CUEVA EN GALERA (GRANADA): UNA NUEVA VIDA PARA UNA VIVIENDA TRADICIONAL
The cave-houses were traditional houses in south-eastern Spain until the 1980´s, but due to emigration, new housing and the pressure of local and regional governments, they were practically abandoned for almost two decades…
LIVING IN A MONUMENT – A MATTER OF TASTE AND CLASS. A CASE STUDY
This paper addresses an increasingly observable but until now hardly examined phenomenon: how individuals, highly engaged with the symbolic value of architecture, appropriate modernist housing estates, progressively replacing the former residents who are mostly indifferent towards architecture…
DOSSIER ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE HOUSE, VALUE AND MANNERS OF INHABIT – INTRODUCTION
Over the past decades relevant ethnographic work have emerged about the house and its material culture reveiling…