scholarly journals Material Geographies of House Societies: Reconsidering Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Kuijt
Keyword(s):  
Single Family ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
House Societies ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Family House

This paper explores how people within Neolithic villages were connected to co-resident multi-family households, and considers the potential material footprint of multi-family households within Neolithic villages. Drawing upon data from Çatalhöyük, I suggest that Neolithic communities were organized around multiple competing and cooperating Houses, similar to House Societies, where house members resided in clusters of abutting buildings, all largely the same size and with similar internal organization. These space were deeply connected to telling the generative narratives of the House as a historical and genealogical social unit, including the lives and actions of the ancestors, and in some cases embedding them physically within the fabric of the building. Çatalhöyük multi-family House members decorated some important rooms with display elaboration that focused on the past, the future and the family, while the dead from the households, who in many ways were still alive and part of the ancestral House, lived beneath the floor. This study underlines that researchers need to consider social scales beyond the single-family household and consider how the multi-family House existed as an organizational foundation within Neolithic villages.

Materialisation of the Good Life in the New House

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Lan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Western Society ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rural Architecture ◽  
Family House

Abstract Over the past two decades, Chinese rural architecture has experienced dramatic changes through the Building the Chinese Socialist New Village movement. Thousands of new houses, particularly in the model of the New Village, have risen abruptly out of the ground. These Western-style new houses with a garden (huayuan yangfang), which often appear in the media as typical family houses in Western society, largely represent the image of the good life of the state and the peasant in contemporary China. In this article, I focus on how the family house is produced and consumed in Baikou New Village in south China. By presenting the materiality of the dwelling space, this paper probes the intertwined processes of the materialisation of the blueprint of the good life and how the new houses influence family life (especially intergenerational relationships) in post-socialist Baikou New Village.

scholarly journals The Old Greeks

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kouvaros
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Siegfried Kracauer ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Dead

In his final unfinished book on the writing of history, Siegfried Kracauer wonders about his increasing susceptibility to ‘the speechless plea of the dead’. ‘[T]he older one grows, the more he is bound to realize that his future is the future of the past—history.’ For the children of migrants, the question of how to speak well of the dead is distinguished by complex feelings of attachment and rejection, identification and denial that are expressed in a range of everyday interactions. ‘The Old Greeks’ examines the part played by photographic media in this process of memorialisation. It elaborates a series of propositions about the value of photographic media that are tested through a consideration of the events that surrounded the author’s first years in Australia.

Legacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-190
Author(s):  
Rachel Chrastil
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Necessary Connections

What happens to our stuff when we die? How might we reimagine the family tree? Childlessness raises, among others, questions about legacy, inheritance, our relationship with future generations, our ability to shape the future, and the narratives we tell about the past and the future. The author examines several life stories to help readers begin to envision childlessness within a new paradigm of meaning. This chapter encourages readers to consider new metaphors for how they think about childlessness. It ends with considerations about the deep and necessary connections between the childless and the childful within the quest for human flourishing.

scholarly journals Death and Woman: Comparing the Meaning of the Deaths of the Female Main Characters in the Works of Toni Morrison and Alice Munro

Lexicon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Munjid
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Set Up

This paper seeks to explore the meaning of death in two important works by two female Noble Prize winning authors, Toni Morrison and Alice Munro. Hagin’s (2010) theory of role of death in storyline is used to analyze the works. The three deaths found in the story: initial death, intermediary death and story-terminating death all have significant meaningful relation to the past and the future. They have epistemological value of revealing and/or exposing the truth from the past. Death is used as technical instrument to reveal the truth, to transform ignorance into knowledge, dishonesty into accountability, to purify the past from falsehood and lies. Death also inserts its demand in the story by removing obstacle or giving opportunity for the living to set up new goal. The demand of the dead is possible since the deceased is “remembered” by the “cult” who may follow or manipulate their legacy. The two authors articulate “feminist voice” through the struggle of the main female characters. Toni Morrison articulates the dehumanizing consequence of racism, whereas Alice Munro voices her concern on the contradictory nature of orderly neat appearance of the modern people versus scandalous dark secret beneath the surface.Keywords: dehumanization, feminist voice, initial death, intermediary death, story-terminating death, racism.

scholarly journals Products of Counterfactual Imagination:The Healing Life of Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Adriana-Carolina Bulz
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Fantasy World ◽  
Central Piece ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Political Persecution ◽  
Literary Experience

My papers investigates two of the latter volumes by Romanian author Monica Pillat, Invitație la vis (An Invitation to Dream, 2014), and Croitorul de cărți (The Book Tailor, 2019), in which the literary experience elevates and transcends life itself, as a form of rewriting/healing the past and, maybe, of projecting one’s dreams into the future. It relies on criticism of two stories from the respective volumes, which investigates the sites of memory, such as the family mansion, which is the central piece around which the fantasy world woven by the author gravitates. Since Monica Pillat descends from a whole line of literary masters, her gift for writing is in fact a form of recuperating and also compensating for the family past, in which especially her father (Dinu Pillat) was very much afflicted by political persecution during Communist times. In my paper, I will dwell upon the less factual connection between life and literature – that of a mutual mirroring and influencing – in the attempt to prove that the experience of writing can make up for the losses encountered in reality. In this sense, being a literary author may offer one the chance of re-inventing one’s self (or imaginatively amending the life of your loved ones) and – for Monica Pillat – it certainly offers the greatest reward of all: a continual dwelling inside the family lineage, in the company of the kindred spirits that have guided and protected her since she was born.

Praying and Witnessing

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
David Henig
Keyword(s):  
Critical Events ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dream Visions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Islamic Healing ◽  
The Dead

This chapter examines the role of prayer (dova) in Muslim life. The act of prayer belongs to the villagers’ repertoires of vital exchange whereby blessing, prosperity, and vitality are accessed, and relations between life and the afterlife, and between the living, the dead, and the divine are maintained and cultivated. Prayer is thus crucial in villagers’ temporal orientations toward the past, present, and the future. The chapter focuses on two major forms of prayer. First, it explores how prayer is deployed to address matters here and now, and/or prospectively by introducing examples of Islamic healing, and dream visions and divination. Second, it analyzes how acts of prayer intersect with and shape the ethics of memory. It shows how the idiom of dova provides village Muslims with a vocabulary with which to engage with the critical events of the past and becomes a mode of historical experience. Specifically, it focuses on how prayer is performed by the living for the souls of the dead, including war martyrs from the 1992-95 war, as well as from the Ottoman era.

Through the Past to the Future of Naples

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Ana Lóio
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Baby Girl ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Personal A ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
The City

This chapter re-examines a neglected textual conjecture in Silv. 4.8 (semina for lumina in line 15) and offers a further conjecture (pectora for lumina in 17). This poem is presented as both civic and personal, a celebration of the birth of Pollius Felix’ grandson which simultaneously applauds the generosity of an illustrious family in contributing descendants to grace the Neapolitan citizen community. The intimacy of Statius’ poem for his patron is illustrated by the citing of a possible Propertian intertext, which enhances the lustre of Menecrates’ two boys and the charm of his baby girl through their resemblance to the Dioscuri and their little sister, Helen. The civic resonance of the poem is resumed in Statius’ closural prayer addressed to the guardian gods of the city for the well-being of the family.

Reflections on the Family Business Literature: Pioneers Look to the Past and the Future

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelin E. Gersick
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future

In keeping with the review format of this handbook, this interview feature asks three of the founders of the field to reflect on their entry into this area of work and their impressions of its development.

scholarly journals Potential and importance of multi-family housing individualization

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branislava Stoiljkovic ◽  
Goran Jovanovic
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
Single Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Housing Structure ◽  
Special Challenge ◽  
Family Housing ◽  
Family Building ◽  
Family House

Single family housing is for many reasons considered a more favorable form of housing than the multi-family one. Hence, designing of housing in a multi-family housing structure is a special challenge for designers, because it is expected that the dwelling comfort offered by the multi-family structure is as similar to one of living in a house as possible, that is to seek analogies with the family house when designing a multi-family building. There is a number of possible ways to individualize a multi-family building, regarding the apartments, architectonic composition or urban composition, whose realization would contribute to enhancement of multi-family housing quality.

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