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In life and in fiction, houses are compelling objects that shape an impressive range of personal and public affairs. A house embodies experiences often intensely emotional, and it also represents both a major financial investment and a material reality embedded in architectural, aesthetic, and social traditions. The house, the place where we try to be at home, can be regarded - as theorists from Gaston Bachelard to Edward S. Casey have argued - as the key space for our constructions of selfhood and belonging. A host of contemporary German narratives featuring houses highlight this relationship between selfhood and domestic space. Beginning with a historical and theoretical overview of the house in German literature, 'Housebound' analyzes the shelters - often highly ambivalent spaces - that writers such as Katharina Hacker, Arno Geiger, Walter Kappacher, Monika Maron, Jenny Erpenbeck, Judith Hermann, Barbara Honigmann, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar build in their texts and what these reveal about contemporary selfhood in Germany and its relationship to the social world. The concluding comparative analysis of Katharina Hacker's 'Die Habenichtse' and the English novelist Ian McEwan's 'Saturday' reveals these developments in another national literature and makes a case for the global appeal of the domestic as a major site of identity politics. Monika Shafi is the Elias Ahuja Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware.

German fiction --- Home in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Domestic relations in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Aesthetic. --- Architectural. --- Arno Geiger. --- Barbara Honigmann. --- Belonging. --- Contemporary German Narratives. --- Domestic Space. --- Emine Sevgi Özdamar. --- Emotional Experiences. --- Financial Investment. --- German Literature. --- Housebound. --- Houses. --- Identity Politics. --- Jenny Erpenbeck. --- Judith Hermann. --- Katharina Hacker. --- Monika Maron. --- Monika Shafi. --- Selfhood. --- Social Traditions. --- Walter Kappacher.

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Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology-prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production. Jordan also explores different material culture traditions that are propagated through social learning, factors that promote coherent lineages of tradition to form, and the extent to which these cultural lineages exhibit congruence with one another and with language history. Drawing on the application of cultural transmission theory to empirical research, Jordan develops a descent-with-modification perspective on the technology of Northern Hemisphere hunter-gatherers. Case studies from indigenous societies in Northwest Siberia, the Pacific Northwest Coast, and Northern California provide cross-cultural insights related to the evolution of material culture traditions at different social and spatial scales. This book promises new ways of exploring some of the primary factors that generate human cultural diversity in the deep past and through to the present.

Technology and civilization. --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- Technological complexity. --- Prehistoric peoples --- Social evolution. --- Social learning. --- Intercultural communication. --- Cross-cultural communication --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Complexity, Technological --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Civilization and machinery --- Civilization and technology --- Machinery and civilization --- Material culture. --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Learning --- Socialization --- Evolution --- Social change --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Anthropology --- Industries, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting --- Civilization --- Social history --- Technology --- Anthropological aspects --- Philosophy --- Humanism. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Cultural. --- Archaeology. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- 1900 - 1999. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Prehistoric peoples - Material culture. --- Primitive societies --- anthropology. --- archaeology. --- cultural diversity. --- cultural lineages. --- cultural transmission theory. --- cumulative change. --- descent with modification. --- global history. --- human cultural material. --- human technology. --- hunter gatherers. --- indigenous societies. --- language history. --- material culture. --- northern california. --- northern hemisphere. --- northwest siberia. --- operational sequence. --- pacific northwest coast. --- social learning. --- social traditions. --- social. --- technology. --- tradition. --- variability.