Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open their Doors
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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open their Doors

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Contemporary family life in America has been examined from many perspectives but rarely through the lens of household material culture—the things we own and the ways we use our homes. Sociologists, cultural anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and policy makers have much to say about today’s families, but the methods of ethnoarchaeology take us directly into fresh new territory about modern households. This book explores the home lives of middle-class families in California, exposing vast material worlds and actual and idealized modes of life at home. It is a documentary record of the fascinating richness of these worlds and a unique visual journey into modern cultural history.

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century @ Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press (publisher) | Powell’s

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open their Doors

Jeanne Arnold, Anthony Graesch, Enzo Ragazzini, and Elinor Ochs
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open their Doors

Contemporary family life in America has been examined from many perspectives but rarely through the lens of household material culture—the things we own and the ways we use our homes. Sociologists, cultural anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and policy makers have much to say about today’s families, but the methods of ethnoarchaeology take us directly into fresh new territory about modern households. This book explores the home lives of middle-class families in California, exposing vast material worlds and actual and idealized modes of life at home. It is a documentary record of the fascinating richness of these worlds and a unique visual journey into modern cultural history.

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century @ Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press (publisher) | Powell’s

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