- Title
- The sensuous host: Practices of ensuring guests feel ‘at home’ in traditional Iranian houses
- Creator
- Tehrani, Melika; Duffy, Michelle
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/155840
- Identifier
- vital:11339
- Identifier
- ISSN:2307-4000
- Abstract
- This article explores the ways in which home is understood, felt and experienced through our sensual experiences, more specifically the ways in which a guest is made to feel at home through the cultural and social practices of a traditional Iranian household. Our particular focus is the traditional residential architecture of Iranian homes built prior to the Pahlavi era (i.e. 1925-1979). These traditional houses were designed, maintained and inhabited in a way that sought to maintain a pleasurable relationship between the home and its inhabitants, that is, a relationship that fed and nourished all five senses. We draw on a phenomenological approach as a means to recreate this historic period so as to explore the significance of the body and its sensual encounters with place, providing a detailed examination of home- making and notions of hospitality and how architecture, culture, senses and hospitality are brought together.
- Relation
- Journal of South East Asian Studies Vol. 3, no. 3 (2015), p. 351-361
- Rights
- © ESci Journals Publishing. All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Culture; Domestic interiors; Experiential; Home-making; Hospitality; Iranian architecture; Senses; Traditional houses; MD Multidiscplinary
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