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Note: Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction (Antony Buxton / Linda Hulin / Jane Anderson) -- The engagement with habitation by various disciplines -- Inter- or pluridisciplinary approaches to habitation -- Developing themes and discourse -- Bibliography -- Part I: Conceptualising Habitation -- 1. InHabiting Space: Archaeologists, Objects and Architecture (Linda Hulin) -- House and home -- Architecture and behaviour -- Archaeology and behaviour -- Bibliography -- 2. Uncertain Futures, Obscure Pasts: The Relationship between the Subject and the Object in the Praxis of Archaeology and Architectural Design (Jane Anderson) -- Introduction -- Architecture and archaeology -- A literary perspective on the relationship between subject and object -- A philosophical perspective on the relationship between subject and object -- The effect of the architect or archaeologist in the dynamic between subject and object -- Case study: Atelier Bow Wow -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 3. Furnitecture (Andrea Placidi) -- Furnitecture -- Definition of the term 'Furnitecture' -- The application of furnitecture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Practising Habitation -- 4. You Are Where You Eat: Worldview and the Public/Private Preparation and Consumption of Food (Wendy Morrison) -- Introduction -- Public and private space -- Understanding worldview -- An example from Roman Britain -- Discussion -- Bibliography -- 5. London in Pieces: A Biography of a Lost Urban Streetscape (Matthew Jenkins / Charlotte Newman) -- A London streetscape: Discovering Tilney Street -- A social context: Tilney Street and Mayfair -- Ladies, earls and spinsters: A story of Tilney Street and its form, function and use -- 1 Tilney Street -- 4 Tilney Street -- 3 Tilney Street -- 5 Tilney Street -- 2 Tilney Street -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography. , Primary sources -- Published secondary sources -- Unpublished secondary sources -- 6. Feasts and Triumphs: The Structural Dynamic of Elite Social Status in the English Country House (Antony Buxton) -- Late medieval 'estate' and early modern emergent comfort: Horizontal internal hierarchy -- The house of the sixteenth-century humanist courtier: Elevated discrimination -- Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century aristocratic discernment: Horizontal and vertical social filtering -- Mid-eighteenth-century social peer association: Horizontal circulation -- Victorian upper-middle-class moral probity and material management: Systematised nucleated engagement -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7. Miracle Kitchens and Bachelor Pads: The Competing Narratives of Modern Spaces (Rebecca Devers) -- Bibliography -- Part III: Diminished Habitation -- 8. A Home on the Waves: The Archaeology of Seafaring and Domestic Space (Damian Robinson) -- Introduction -- Performance, safety and transient domestic space -- Domestic space and maritime archaeology -- The Mary Rose -- The Serçe Limanı ship -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 9. Homeless Habitus: An Archaeology of Homeless Places (Rachael Kiddey) -- Introduction -- What do we mean by 'home' and 'homeless'? -- What is street homelessness? -- Contemporary archaeology: An approach to modern material heritage -- Habitus in relation to contemporary archaeology -- The Homeless Heritage project 2009-14 -- Case studies: Two homeless 'home' places -- Jane's Hot Skipper -- Jacko's multi-storey car park sleeping place -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part IV: Ruptured Habitation -- 10. Continuity and Memory: Domestic Space, Gesture and Affection at the Sixteenth-Century Deathbed (Catherine Richardson) -- Bibliography -- 11. Don't Try This at Home: Artists' Viewing Inhabitation (Stephen Walker). , Introduction -- House, Rachel Whiteread, 1993 -- Alteration to a Suburban House, Dan Graham, 1978 -- Splitting, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1974 -- Don't try this at home -- Bibliography -- Afterword (Frances F. Berdan) -- Some key themes -- Adaptation -- Relationships and context -- Dynamics and agency -- The value of interdisciplinary approaches -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.