The Home

Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments

David N. Benjamin

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Routledge
07 November 2024

Homelessness; Urban communities; Social & cultural anthropology; The environment; Regional & area planning

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ethnoscapes

Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments, written by by leading theorists and empirical researchers offers an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural spectrum of viewpoints on the study of the home concept. Among the disciplines covered are environment-behaviour research, anthropology, geography, archaeology, architecture, political science, and linguistics-place name research.

The authors in this volume focus on refining our concepts of home, our knowledge of the uses of home, and the relationship of home to the study of cultural interpretation. In so doing, they inspire our thinking on the following themes: the struggle to maintain cultural continuity in the face of socio-political change, and the attempts to humanize the present and future built environment.

This volume will be interesting to all scholars of cultural interpretation, geographers, and architects, and at the same time useful in graduate studies courses in environmental social sciences and environmental design as reference and source of cutting-edge case studies.

Edited by: David N. Benjamin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032864112
ISBN 10: 1032864117
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ethnoscapes
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 07 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Adult education , Primary , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David N. Benjamin received his PhD in Architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, Norway with a study on the ancient Scandinavian home, and at the time of original publication was consultant to architects and research organizations in the US and Europe.

Reviews for The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments

From the original edition: ‘I am very excited by this collection … because it embraces the connections and oppositions inherent in crossing disciplinary boundaries… . This continues the increasingly valuable discussion of gender and multi-cultural aspects of housing in other recent volumes.’ – From the foreword by Professor David Saile, PhD. University of Cincinnati, USA