InHabit

Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perpectives on human habitation from fields such as archaeology, material culture, art and design, and architecture, providing compelling examples of the potential for interdisciplinary conversations on the subject.

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Antony Buxton is an ethno-historian who lectures on design history, material and domestic culture in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. His foremost research interest is the way in which spatial context and objects articulate values and social relationships, as explored in Domestic Culture in Early Modern England (2015). Linda Hulin is an archaeologist and research officer at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology in the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her principal ongoing research interest is the intersection of mariner networks and the creation of value. Jane Anderson is an architect and Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. The author of Architectural Design (2011), her research interests include the relationship between reality and imagination in architecture, and interdisciplinary connections and collaborations between art, literature, music and architecture.

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Contents: Antony Buxton/Linda Hulin/Jane Anderson: Introduction - Linda Hulin: InHabiting Space: Archaeologists, Objects and Architecture - Jane Anderson: Uncertain Futures, Obscure Pasts: The Relationship between the Subject and the Object in the Praxis of Archaeology and Architectural Design - Andrea Placidi: Furnitecture - Wendy Morrison: You Are Where You Eat: Worldview and the Public/Private Preparation and Consumption of Food - Matthew Jenkins/Charlotte Newman: London in Pieces: A Biography of a Lost Urban Streetscape - Antony Buxton: Feasts and Triumphs: The Structural Dynamic of Elite Social Status in the English Country House - Rebecca Devers: Miracle Kitchens and Bachelor Pads: The Competing Narratives of Modern Spaces - Damian Robinson: A Home on the Waves: The Archaeology of Seafaring and Domestic Space - Rachael Kiddey: Homeless Habitus: An Archaeology of Homeless Places - Catherine Richardson: Continuity and Memory: Domestic Space, Gesture and Affection at the Sixteenth-Century Deathbed - Stephen Walker: Don't Try This at Home: Artists' Viewing Inhabitation - Frances F. Berdan: Afterword.