This article examines people’s responses to the material objects they inherit or discover in their homes. Reflecting on interviews with inhabitants of a variety of English domestic interiors, the author explores the meanings, values and beliefs involved in choices to retrieve, retain, reposition or replace material residues from the home’s recent or distant past. Participants’ responses reveal how beliefs about the past and its objects become imbricated in homemaking practices, locating home as shared, both spatially and temporally, and enhancing or challenging senses of belonging. In particular, objects left by previous inhabitants are endowed with degrees of agency as part of the identity of home. Responses reflect a belief in the continuing presence of the past. Many objects require a form of negotiation – including rituals of appeasement or containment – expressing an entangled relationship between the heimlich and unheimlich in everyday homemaking practices.

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在家中与过去共存：继承的家庭物品的来世

本文考察了人们对他们在家中继承或发现的物质对象的反应。在对与各种英国家庭室内装饰的居民进行的访谈中反映出，作者探索了选择，取回，保留，重新定位或替换房屋近期或遥远过去的物质残留所涉及的含义，价值和信念。参与者的回答揭示了对过去及其对象的信念如何融入家庭生产实践中，如何在空间和时间上找到共享的房屋，以及增强或挑战归属感。特别是，先前居民留下的物品具有一定程度的代理权，可以作为居所身份的一部分。回应反映出人们对过去持续存在的信念。