ABSTRACT
Material dwelling concerns the ways in which objects, structures and the settings in which they are to be found are put to use; how they are employed to construct a ‘world’, and in so doing create and reinforce the fundamental values that define what matters in that world. Through a focus on heritage tourism, specifically Hever Castle in England I explore how the objects, buildings and landscapes of heritage are gathered together and used to create a world that is essentially English and Protestant, and where individual liberty is a defining characteristic. Dwelling through materiality is a dwelling in relation to heritage time. Heritage time as socially constructed time illustrates the human need to create ways of locating the self within a wider temporality of people and events. In effect to establish, maintain and perpetuate the lineage of human existence.
