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Living in a World Heritage Site

Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina

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Authors:
  1. Manon Istasse

    1. Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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  • Examines the relationship of residents in the Fez medina to the medina as a world heritage site
  • Presents an important perspective on heritage using an urban ethnographic approach
  • Ties together ethnographic investigations from the perspectives of the residents themselves with theoretical notions and debates across Anthropology

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology (PSUA)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Manon Istasse
    Pages 1-36

  3. Fez

    • Manon Istasse
    Pages 37-80

  4. Houses in Fez: A Materialist Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-82
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    2. Undertaking Work in a House

      • Manon Istasse
      Pages 83-113

    3. Furnishing and Decorating a House

      • Manon Istasse
      Pages 115-138

    4. Intimacy, Hospitality and Tradition in Tourist Accommodation

      • Manon Istasse
      Pages 139-163

  5. Attachment to Houses: Home and Heritage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-166
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    2. Sensual, Affective and Cognitive Relations with Houses

      • Manon Istasse
      Pages 167-206

    3. From Conflicts to the Attachment to Houses

      • Manon Istasse
      Pages 207-237

  6. Heritage in Fez

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Heritage: Forms, Grammar and Circulation

      • Manon Istasse
      Pages 241-268

    3. Conclusion

      • Manon Istasse
      Pages 269-280

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 281-297
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About this book

Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage. Istasse interrogates how heritage appears (or not) when inhabitants undertake construction and restoration projects in their homes, furnish and decorate their spaces, talk about their affective and sensual relations with houses, face conflicts in and about their houses, and more. Shedding light on the continuum between houses-as-dwellings and houses-as-heritage, the author establishes heritage as a trajectory: heritage as a quality results from a ‘surplus of attention’ and relates to nostalgia or to a feeling of threat, loss, and disappearance; to values related to purity, materiality, and time; and to actions of preservation and transmission. Living in a World Heritage site provides a grammar of heritage that will allow scholars to question key notions of temporality and nostalgia, the idea of culture, theimportance of experts, and moral principles in relation to heritage sites around the globe.

Reviews

“This nuanced and theoretically sophisticated ethnography shows us that people and houses forge intimate relationships which—even in a place replete with history—go far beyond what a cultural heritage discourse singles out. Istasse delivers a major contribution to urban and architectural anthropology, critical heritage research, and the study of materiality and its social life.” (Christoph Brumann, Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)  

  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Manon Istasse

About the author

Manon Istasse is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie de Mondes Contemporains (LAMC) at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Living in a World Heritage Site

  • Book Subtitle: Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina

  • Authors: Manon Istasse

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17451-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17450-7Published: 16 July 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17453-8Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17451-4Published: 03 July 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2436

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2444

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 293

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Urban Studies/Sociology, Middle Eastern Culture

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