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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Domestic Space"”.
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CHANGING USES OF ZAPOTEC DOMESTIC SPACE (MEXICO).
The study of changes in the use of domestic space has received little attention in the past despite the implications of such research for everything from archaeology to architecture. This dissertation investigates the relationship between changes in domestic space use and sociocultural factors …
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Early Greek and Homeric Conceptions of Domestic Space
… explores the relationship between the use of domestic space in the material and literary evidence for early Greece, while at the same time providing a rich data set for the rigorous application of theoretical analysis. In the first half, I reject building typologies and instead subject the …
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The Morisco House in Granada : domestic space in cultural transition
… religious, and personal identity as reflected in domestic space, with the premise that expressions of the built environment evolve from concepts of self. These themes are particularly apparent in the case of residential architecture of the Moriscos, a cultural group of former Muslims forcibly …
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Domestic Space, Modernity, and Identity: The Apartment in Mid-20th Century Turkey
My analysis of ordinary spaces, such as maids' rooms, balconies, and bathrooms, constitutes a rich and unexplored domain that exposed the continuation and modernization of hierarchical class relations; it also highlights women's gendered identity in domestic space. Most significantly, the analysis …
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“I Don’t Want to Cook”: Reconfiguring the Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… that considers ways in which the concept of domesticity features in the lives of black and white women in history, there is less discussion of how these women’s unique challenges led them to alter the traditional domestic space. This dissertation first assesses a range of nineteenth-century …
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Development of a domestic space launch ecosystem for optimal support of US national interests
… capabilities of the US Government's (USG) space launch portfolio and the processes in place to establish new-entrant launch providers for National Security Space payloads. It is hypothesized that there is an infeasibility of the current space launch enterprise to scale to satisfy increased …
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Modern Homes? An Analysis of Irish and British Women's Literary Constructions of Domestic Space 1929-1946
… is the necessary sequestration of ‘bourgeois’ domestic spaces from an increasingly ‘modern’ outside world, such a spatial binarism is notably absent in the works of Irish and British women authors from 1929-1946. On the contrary, in these texts, domestic space has multiple functions, not least …
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Discerning activity areas in domestic space : a model for the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Levant
… the physical structures, but also the use of space within them, since the organization of domestic activity is at a basic level culturally determined. This study proposes a method for such examination, through the creation of a typology of rooms and the analysis of the distribution of …
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The ethics of space, secrecy, and solitude: domestic space in French sixteenth-century literature and visual culture
This dissertation examines the representation of domestic space in Gilles Corrozet’s Blasons domestiques (1539), Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron (1549), and Michel de Montaigne’s Essais (1580-1595), as well as attitudes towards the building of family homes expressed in architectural treatises by …
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The social meaning of domestic space : notes on a suitable research methodology for southern African architectural studies
… concern is with the analysis of southern African domestic architecture, which, it is argued, has become separated from the study of social systems and human behaviour. It is suggested that architectural research needs to be grounded in a coherent theoretical framework of a sociological nature if …
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Make yourself at home: networked domestic space, place and narrative in middle class South African everyday life
Domestic space and place, as well as how we conceptualise the home, are shifting in response to changes in digital and SNS technologies, and our relationships with such technologies. The home is not only the building in which we live, but a networked assemblage of material and digitally mediated …
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Imagining the Home: A practice based critical investigation into the western frontier domestic space and its mediated form
… and highlights the tropes and conventions of domestic space in the Western film and the historical landscape. Focusing on narratives that reflect the period of US expansion and settlement in the second half of the nineteenth century, the thesis argues that the frontier home was fundamental not …
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Reconstructing the use and conception of pharaonic domestic space in Nubia: geoarchaeological investigations at Amara West (~1300–1070BC)
… aims to reconstruct residents’ conceptions of domestic space over time. This research builds upon and complements wider ongoing scientific investigations of domestic lifeways at Amara West. As the site’s housing is firmly situated within a wider New Kingdom tradition, insights gained through …
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War on architecture : scenographic strategies in tracing post-war home in the former SFR Yugoslavia
This research investigates domestic spaces in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following their destruction and abandonment in the wars of the 1990s. It establishes case studies and frameworks for examining sites according to the significance of ‘home’ - before, during and after …
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"What shall we use to fill the empty spaces?": Displacement in Frank Norris's McTeague
… leads to a mental break that is reflected in the domestic spaces she inhabits. The places she lives each become smaller and dirtier reflecting her diminished mental capacity. All the while, Trina works to fill her trunk, a substitute domestic space, with coins in an attempt to build value for …
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