Living in a World Heritage Site Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina /

Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage. Istasse interrogates how heritage appears (or not) when inhabitants undertake construction and restoration projects in their home...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Istasse, Manon (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology,
Subjects:
Ethnology.
Sociology, Urban.
Ethnology > Middle East .
Culture.
Ethnography.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
Urban Sociology.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Pictures
  • Chapter 1: Introduction.-Chapter 2: Fez
  • Part I: Houses in Fez: A Materialist Approach
  • Chapter 3: Undertaking Work in a House
  • Chapter 4: Furnishing and Decorating a House
  • Chapter 5: Intimacy, Hospitality and Tradition in Tourist Accommodation
  • Part II: Attachment to Houses: Home and Heritage
  • Chapter 6: Sensual, Affective, and Cognitive Relations with Houses
  • Chapter 7: From Conflicts to the Attachment to Houses
  • Part III: Heritage in Fez
  • Chapter 8: Heritage: Forms, Grammar, and Circulation
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Index.

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