Mapping the Digital Home: Making Cultural Sense of Domestic Space and Place

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Hasbrouck
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Space ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Digital Home

Addicted to Christ

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Transformation Techniques ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Alternative Masculinities ◽  
Street Corner ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The U.S

How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? This book provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black and Latino neighborhoods in the U.S. mainland. The book melds cultural anthropology and psychiatry. Through the stories of ministry converts, the book examines key elements of Pentecostalism: mysticism, ascetic practice, and the idea of other-worldliness. It then reconstructs the ministries' strategies of spiritual victory over addiction: transformation techniques to build spiritual strength and authority through pain and discipline; cultivation of alternative masculinities based on male converts' reclamation of domestic space; and radical rupture from a post-industrial “culture of disposability.” By contrasting the ministries' logic of addiction with that of biomedicine, the book rethinks roads to recovery, discovering unexpected convergences with biomedicine while revealing the allure of street corner ministries.

Space and place in internet information flows

Netcom ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aharon Kellerman
Keyword(s):  
Space And Place ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Internet Information

Early Debates

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Llano
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Conduct Manuals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Social ◽  
Undeserving Poor

This chapter provides an account of how organilleros elicited public anger because their activity did not fit into any of the social aid categories that had been in place since the late eighteenth century. Social aid in Spain relied on a clear-cut distinction between deserving and undeserving poor in order to rationalize the distribution of limited resources and reduce mendicancy on the streets. Organilleros could not, strictly speaking, be considered idle, since they played music, but their activity required no specific skills and was regarded with suspicion as a surrogate form of begging. The in-betweenness of the organillero caused further anger as it challenged attempts to establish a neat distinction between public and private spaces. On one hand, organillo music penetrated the domestic space, which conduct manuals of the nineteenth century configured as female; on the other, it brought women into the public space, which those manuals configured as male.

Home and Vehicle in American Folklore and Folklife

2018 ◽  
pp. 624-642
Author(s):  
Cory Thomas Hutcheson
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Political Performance ◽  
American Folklore ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Yard Art

This chapter unfolds the intersectionality of the domestic sphere in three parts. First, the home itself presents a multivalent space in which individual locations become realms of practice and performance for different groups, such as bathrooms used by children at slumber parties as the locus of legend ostension. Issues of personal identity and even “solo folklore” appear in spaces like treehouses and apartments, as do considerations of material cultural performance. Questions of gender and occupation appear in rooms like the “man cave” or the “home office” as well. Beyond the domestic space is the intersection of home and public spaces in practices such as holiday decoration, yard art, porch culture, and backyard cookouts. The automobile informs the final section, demonstrating the connection between domestic, familial, social, and political performance.

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