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hes olin Spc Pe nd Scey At Home coming Geographer —_—___ neon An Anthropology of ropalcat rma Spas Domestic Space Palace Geographical Voices Peter Gould and Forrest 8 Pits, eds ‘The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid Richard Grant an Jan Nimans Edited by Irene Cieraad Inventing Black-on-Black Violence ‘With a Foreword by John Rennie Short Devid Won ‘Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 John Rennie Short [New Worlds, New Geographies Jobin Rennie Short Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces oes David Bel w SU Second Nature: The History and Implications _ of Australia as Aboriginal Landscape ‘Syracuse University Press Lesley Head Irene Cieraad though from different perspectives, focuses on the transition or the relationship ture, The topics range fi tudes toward the psychology, wving made the anthropological approach and its search for meaning new and broaching research tradi trating the exotic in the familiar Domesticity in Dispute A Reconsideration of Sources Heidi de Mare ‘ERATURE that examines the way peoplelived in jcentury Dutch interior as the cradle of dor Rybczynsid in his book Home: A Short. seventeenth-century Dutch bourgeois everyday lite d 12 remarks on seventeenth-centucy Dutch ‘their sobriety is not without a sense of eae and warm bourgeois in 194,102). Similarly the historian Simon Schasma weit ‘of domesticity pervades “an idylic, peacet “the stil atmosphere of the room” in works by Jo by Pieter de Hooch of lghe, represent “middle-class ene” by Emanuel de es Vermeer (Rybex ing emphasis om privacy idle-clas family, res Heidi de Mare ‘parents and children, with the nuclear family constituting the focus of domesticity (Rybceynsk 1987, 59-60). The neat, uncluttered interiors by Pieter de Hooch reflect disciplined organization of Dutch households, while the untidy rooms depicted are an expression of the very antithesis. Objects of many kinds portrayed {nn the paintings, from brooms to water purnps, emphasize the interest in household ‘matters. The authors also refer to other manifestations ofthe same intirate, domestic to be found in books, for example, the much-read work by J advice on marriage (Scham od (Rybexynski 1987, 35-56) ‘every author gives a second interpretation: Schama st ‘metaphorical relationship between cleansing the house and the general craving for purity: Rybezynski emphasizes the role of the housewife and ber maid practical organization of the household, Like Franits he sees women's devo the home as a sign of the final feminization of the domestic sphere and asa typical haeacterstc of Dutch domesticity. ‘Many ofthese elements can indeed be found in writings and pain atmosphere. were then projected into the past and applied to seventeenth-cent bbooks, and houses (Schotel 1867; Grijzenhout and Van Veen 1992). concept of domesticity. ry the myth of seventeenth-

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