Domesticities challenged in the City of Buenos Aires since the beginning of the 20th century. Material culture, modes and forms of inhabiting the domestic space

Abstract

According to the dictionary, domesticity, quality or condition of the domestic relative to housing or home, implies an act of domestication, reduction and accustoming to the sight and company of that which is foreign or wild. It implies an interiority and implicitly carries a concept of nature, of otherness and a process of naturalization of what is glimpsed as alien. To deal with domesticity is to deal with the forms and ways of inhabiting that evidence the relationships between people and between people and objects, and about the meanings and symbolizations that give consistency to the domestic space in urban culture.

The conceptions about domesticity since the beginning of the 20th century will be analyzed, in order to account for the processes of persistence or transformation of its reference models and imaginaries (disciplinary, academic, professional, popular and commercial).