Print Email Facebook Twitter House and home Title House and home: Reconsidering the anatomy of houses in Western societies Author Cieraad, I.G. (TU Delft Situated Architecture) Date 2021 Abstract The article develops a critical and transversal reading of the special issue. Each contribution inspired the author to seek for a mirror image or an analogy in Western societies and test the mentioned Carsten and Hugh-Jones observation of the seemingly self-evident relation between house and the self. Rosalie Stolz’ contribution on the changing communities of sounds in northern Laos changed the author’s perspective on the background of the popularity of camping in the West. Jonathan Alderman’s contribution on the bloody libation rituals performed in the patio of rural houses in Andean Bolivia made her realize that there is a heightened sensitivity in the West towards blood, and more in particular visible blood spatters, be it animal or human blood. From this consideration, the article presents some reflections on the relation between house and blood. The cultural dead-lock between home-ownership and manhood in southern Tunisia, as described by Pontiggia, points to a general relation between the material home and the male self. Subject HouseHomeSelfComparisonWestern Societies To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:312cc516-d087-48ca-9200-19ed5cda3e09 DOI https://doi.org/10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5046 ISSN 2239-625X Source ANUAC: Revista della Societa Italiana di Antropologia Culturale, 10 (2), 197-214 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 I.G. Cieraad Files PDF house_and_home.pdf 206.4 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:312cc516-d087-48ca-9200-19ed5cda3e09/datastream/OBJ/view