Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti edt Dalbello, Marija edt Dalbello, Marija oth Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti oth text xx Taylor & Francis 2022 monographic eng 1 online resource This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home. Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Anthropology Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Books, cultures, anthropology, sociology,home 9780367689131 9780367689162 9781003139591 9781003139591 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/97944 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/97944 Free-to-read All rights reserved oapen 230303 20260305123951.0 doab97944