The tools of the trade
The materiality of architecture in the patrimonialization of 'Arab houses' in Damascus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391042 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Domenico Copertino (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327-351 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183514540068 |
| OpenAlex | W2326070664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
The ethnographic study of architecture shows that building and restoring practices play an active part in the construction of the social groups that carry them out. 'Proper' practices and concepts of heritage distinguish 'authentic' from 'inauthentic' inhabitants of Damascus Old Town. Heritage development is therefore an act of culturally meaningful engagement through which an arena for confrontation and argument about the 'production of the space' is constituted. Focusing on the dynamic interrelationship of material, social and symbolic aspects of architecture, the author examines the agency and materiality of Arab houses as objects in a mutual relationship with people who build, restore, buy, sell and dwell in them. Getting involved in the material activities and engaging in relationships between the different social actors in this arena allows the intrusive ethnographic glance to grasp the cultural meaning of architecture, not simply as a symbolic representation of people who own, build and restore houses, but as a constitutive element of their sense of identity, belonging and distinction
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity (music · Materiality (auditing · Meaning (existential · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · History · Architecture
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Language, Thought, and Reality
Selected Papers from the "American Anthropologist" 1946-1970
Modernity at large
House form and culture.
Fluid Signs
Moroccan Islam
The Social Life of Things
Ethnography in/of the World System
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Global City
The Built Environment and Spatial Form
French Modern
Is There an Islamic city? The Making of a Quarter in a Moroccan Town
Gentrification and the Rent Gap
The production of space
The Islamic city - Historic Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance
The Dual Vision
Gentrification and Uneven Development
Contemporary Syria
Zones Of Theory In The Anthropology Of The Arab World
La distinction, critique sociale du jugement
The Headman and I
Traditional Housing in African Cities
Beyond the Glitter
Engaging Colonial Nostalgia
The location of Islam
Moving and Dwelling
Translation, Value, and Space
Veiled Sentiments
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |