The ways of your culture are familiar to you, often so deeply ingrained that they come naturally. Culture itself feels like home.
Reading about how this paragraph describes culture reminds of the word ethnocentrism we talked about in class. In a way, ethnocentrism and culture can be distinguishable to people growing up in a isolated place.
Dominant ideas about work, gender, marriage, parenting, hospitality, and status all shape the places we call home.
Houses are built to accommodate all of human needs. All these factors make everything about our homes unique to each family that inhabits it.
In Bourdieu’s analysis, the Kabyle house was divided into two realms: a dark, low realm associated with animals and natural activities (sleeping, sex, childbirth, and death) and a lighter, higher realm associated with humans and cultural activities (weaving, cooking, brides, and guests).
This is very interesting, these ideas are very similar to how we view our living room, and bedrooms.
With the loom and the hearth, the main area of human activity in the house was associated with the work of women.
Women worked mostly in the house during this time period so it makes sense they occupied the nicest parts.