Living in a World Heritage Site

Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-17453-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 293 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

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 homes, furnish and decorate their spaces, talk about their affective and sensual relations with houses, face conflicts in and about their houses, and more. Shedding light on the continuum between houses-as-dwellings and houses-as-heritage, the author establishes heritage as a trajectory: heritage as a quality results from a ‘surplus of attention’ and relates to nostalgia or to a feeling of threat, loss, and disappearance; to values related to purity, materiality, and time; and to actions of preservation and transmission. Living in a World Heritage site provides a grammar of heritage that will allow scholars to question key notions of temporality and nostalgia, the idea of culture, theimportance of experts, and moral principles in relation to heritage sites around the globe.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Istasse, Manon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Manon Istasse is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie de Mondes Contemporains (LAMC) at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.