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Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in the world today and the means by which feelings of homeliness are secured. In particular, the volume explores the relationship between the phenomenon of globalisation and the ways in which home-making entails acts of practical and symbolic emplacement in landscapes felt to be meaningful and authentic. A series of case-studies, from Norway and West Africa, the mid-western USA, Egypt, Scotland and elsewhere, offer an illustrative array of homes made in rural communities and urban worksites, in personal life-histories and the policies of diasporic groups, in ceremonial revivals and mundane routines: in postcards, house furnishings, dreams, clothes and smells. Home-making appears as a kind of work; and it is ongoing, for 'place' and being 'emplaced' are not givens. Instead, home-making exists in time: in moments of individual and collective performance which are both mundane and memorial. Reveries of Home offers a set of cases and a set of arguments that reveal the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Opening a Debate -- The Topic and the Book -- Home and Movement: A Polemic -- Part II: Perceptions of Identity in a World of Movement -- Home and the Expatriate -- 1 Risky Hiatuses and the Limits of Social Imagination: Expatriacy in the Cayman Islands -- Home and the Immigrant -- 2 Coming Home to a Dream: A Study of the Immigrant Discourse of 'Anglo-Saxons' in Israel -- Home and the Dissident -- 3 Homeless at Home: Narrations of Post-Yugoslav Identities -- Home and the Nation -- 4 The Metaphor of 'Home' in Czech Nationalist Discourse -- Home and the Child -- 5 Imaging Children 'At Home', 'In the Family' and 'At School': Movement Between the Spatial and Temporal Markers of Childhood Identity in Britain -- Home and House -- 6 Domestic Appropriations: Multiple Contexts and Relational Limits in the Home-making of Greater Londoners -- Home and Urbanity -- 7 New Identities and the Local Factor - or When is Home in Town a Good Move? -- Home and Community -- 8 The Dislocation of Identity: Contestations of 'Home Community' in Northern England -- Part III: Initiating a Response -- Epilogue: Contested Homes: Home-making and the Making of Anthropology -- List of Contributors -- Index.

What follows is a set of paired articles, followed by a statement by both authors where they debate their distinct positions. Both articles treat irony, but while Rapport looks to it as a possible liberal virtue, a means of dealing with radical difference in a modern democracy, including the illiberal, Stade approaches irony from an ontological position that considers social relationships and cultural contingencies to be but one facet of human existence and irony and alienation to have an existential depth, the study of which can facilitate a rapprochement between sociocultural and philosophical anthropology. The paired articles are pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, perhaps: irony as world-mocking as well as world-tolerant.