Home Rules by Denis Wood
This text makes an exploration of the built environment and our relationship to it. It explores the living room of Denis and Ingrid Wood. Their search is for an understanding of every room as an institution, a cultural creation centered on fundamental human needs, activities, and beliefs.
"As Wood and Beck poignantly prove, even if they never say so, where we live does become us"--'New Yorker' "Denis Wood and Robert Beck undertake a minutely detailed examination of the enculturing power of the home...Anyone who gets through it will look at children's home environments with fresher, more wondering, and more appreciative eyes."--Kelly Bulkeley, 'Religious Studies Review' "'Home Rules' is a work of genuine scholarship that incorporates a truly original vision. Ostensibly it is a case study of the objects contained in a particular home, used to illustrate the network of rules embedded in domestic environments, rules that serve to socialize children to a well-ordered life. On a different level, it is a detailed paean to the material culture of our times, which in turn provides grist for critical reflections about culture in general. And last, but not least, it is a chronicle of family lives stretching back several generations. This book bristles with intelligence."--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of 'Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience' "'Home Rules' is a remarkably original confrontation with life and living, why people behave as they do, and how their conduct in the primary human unit--the family--evolves. No other book has attempted to accomplish so much in this fashion. Wood and Beck have written an astonishing, fascinating 'tour de force' that every reader will immediately appreciate because it also describes his or her life."--Gabriel Kolko, author of 'Main Currents in Modern American History'
Denis Wood, PhD, is an independent scholar living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He lectures widely and is the author of a dozen books and over 150 papers. From 1974 to 1996, he taught in the School of Design at North Carolina State University. In 1992, he curated the Power of Maps exhibition for the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design (remounted at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, in 1994), for which he wrote the book The Power of Maps. His other books include Rethinking the Power of Maps; Making Maps, Third Edition (coauthored with John Krygier); and Weaponizing Maps (coauthored with Joe Bryan).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801846182 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801846188 |
| Title | Home Rules |
| Author | Denis Wood |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1994-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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