Open AccessFRA SOMMERHUS TIL HELÅRSBOLIG
Author(s) -
Mark Vacher
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2596-5425
pISSN - 0906-3021
DOI - 10.7146/ta.v0i59/60.106840
Subject(s) - everyday life , danish , architecture , salient , government (linguistics) , sociology , leisure activity , psychology , geography , social psychology , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
The aim of this article is to compare different ways of dwelling in second homes.
Since 1991, retired people have been given the right by the Danish government to
convert their second home into a primary dwelling. Through numerous empirical
examples, the consequences of the transformation from one type of dwelling to
another are analysed. Especially the perceptions of nature, social relationships
and everyday life reveal signifi cant changes, with salient impacts on architecture,
gardening and leisure time, that result in a differentiation of the otherwise monofunctional
landscape of second homes in Denmark. From an anthropological point
of view, the transformation from second home to primary home is interesting
because it makes explicit the relationship between dwelling and architecture, in
the sense that when one is changed, the other will most likely follow suit.
Keywords: Second home, dwelling, leisure time, everyday life.