ISBN:
9781433115776
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (207 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics vol. 83
Parallel Title:
Print version Oikos - Domus - Household : The Many Lives of a Common Word
DDC:
306.850973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Oikos - Domus - Household: The Many Lives of a Common Word describes historic episodes in the lives of these words, from the Greek oikos and Roman domus to our current family and home. The episodes highlight their function as controlling metaphors used very differently from culture to culture, but often as ways to control basic issues, like the context in which women become pregnant and the control of land and its transmission to heirs. This book also describes how these words and their current equivalents, home and family, are used as metaphors to illustrate how people who count are supposed
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments vii; Introductory Note on Methodology ix; The Classical Background; 1 The House of Menander: Drawing Historical Method from Volcanic Ash 1; 2 The House on Lateran Hill 14; 3 Hovels, Huts and Households 26; Households in Post Roman Europe; 4 The Katholikos in the Lake 39; 5 The House of the Little Foxes 51; The Rise of the Household World; 6 The House of the Foscari 63; 7 The Genizaros Behind the Door 79; The Multiple Births of the American Households; 8 Gulag Along the James 93; 9 Households by the Furnaces 108; 10 Dark Suits Will Be Worn 127
Description / Table of Contents:
11 The Spirit in the Land of Planned Households 13912 The Farmers of New Harmony 153; Conclusion 163; Bibliography 167; Index 171
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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