The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
019588941X
ISBN 13
9780195889413
Category
728.1 Architecture - Residential/Countries
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Publication Year
1990
Publisher
Pages
304
Description
This work presents a detailed description of the centrally significant role of houses in South-East Asian social systems. Focusing on Indonesia, the book traces the historical links between architectural forms, revealing a much wider field of enquiry, closely related to the distribution of Austronesian languages and cultures, and extending as far as Madagascar, Japan, and Oceania. A vivid picture of how people shape buildings and buildings shape people, this study provides new insights into kinship systems, gender symbolism, cosmological ideas, and life itself. - from Amzon
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