House Life: Space, Place, and Family in Europe ;

Oxford ; New York: Berg, 1999. Octavo in grey illus boards; xiii, 265 p.: ill., maps, plans; 24 cm; bibliographical references and indexes As New but for small ding to upper edge of front board; else Fine. Hardcover. ISBN: 1859732305

Chapters entitled: Introduction: houses and families in Europe / Donna Birdwell-Pheasant and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga -- Part I. House, family, and the construction of history -- The Casa of José dos Santos Caldas: family and household in a northwestern Portuguese village, 1850-1993 / Caroline B. Brettell -- Fleeting villages, moving households: Greek housing strategies in historical perspective / Susan Buck Sutton -- The home 'place': center and periphery in Irish house and family systems / Donna Birdwell-Pheasant -- Part II. Houses and the construction of family life -- Reconstructing sexual geography: gender and space in changing Sicilian settlements / Sally S. Booth -- Suburbanizing rural lifestyles through house form in southern Portugal / Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga -- Living spaces in transition: from rural to urban family life in Serbia / Judith A. Rasson, Mirjana Stevanovic, and Vladimir Ilic -- Use of house and space: public and private family interaction on Chios, Greece / Alice V. James and Loukas Kalisperis -- Part III. House and symbol: the power of constructions -- Re-entering the west room: on the power of domestic spaces / Lawrence J. Taylor -- The memory house: time and place in Jewish immigrant culture in France / Joëlle Bahloul. // Households -- Europe. Family -- Europe. Dwellings -- Social aspects -- Europe. Dwellings -- Europe -- Design and construction. Ménages (Statistique) -- Europe. Famille -- Europe. Habitations -- Aspect social -- Europe. Habitations -- Europe -- Conception et construction. Woonruimte. Gezinsrelaties. Antropologische aspecten. Cultural Studies -- Europe