Abstract
The word ‘home’ like ‘family’ ‘motherhood’ and ‘community’, refers to an aspect of social life where myth and reality may sharply diverge. The connotations of the myth are so positive that to point out the negative aspects of the reality seems almost perverse. ‘Home sweet home’, ‘home is where the heart is’, ‘the old folks at home’; they are all the same. We even have a Home Office rather than a Ministry for Internal Affairs.
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Further Reading
Berger, P., Berger, B. and Kellner, H. (1973) The Homeless Mind (Random House).
Okely, J. (1983) The Traveller-Gypsies (Cambridge).
van der Post, L. (1962) The Lost World of the Kalahari (Penguin).
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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill
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McNeill, P. (1991). Home Truths. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_52
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