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Attics and Basements: The Evocative, Expressive and Embracing Functions of Homes and Other Human Dwellings

Editor : Salman Akhtar, Editor : Nasir Ilahi, Editor : Rajiv Gulati

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the editors and contributors
Introduction

Introductory overview

1. The nature and functions of a home
Nidhi Tewari

Real and imaginary homes across the human life span

2. The biography of a home
Nidhi Tewari

3. The search for a sense of home
Sarita Singh and Rajiv Gulati

4. Homesickness, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home
Aisha Abbasi

5. Home, bitter home
Gurmeet S. Kanwal

6. Orphanages and foster homes
Milan Patel

7. Monasteries
Salman Akhtar

8. Retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices
Murad Khan

9. Dwellings and absences thereof, within and without
Nasir Ilahi

Concluding commentary

10. Finally, a turn to poets
Salman Akhtar

References
Index