Title The living house : an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia / Roxana Waterson

Published London : Thames and Hudson, [1997] ©1997

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
WATERFT ART&ARCH	392.36 Wat/Lha 1997		AVAILABLE
WATERFT ART&ARCH	392.36 Wat/Lha 1997		AVAILABLE

Description xix, 263 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm Contents Origins -- Perceptions of built form: indigenous and colonial -- The interrelation of built forms -- Technology and symbolism -- Cosmologies -- The living house -- Kinship and 'house societies' -- Space and the shaping of social relations -- Houses of the dead -- Migrations Summary "A detailed picture of the house within the social and symbolic worlds of South-East Asian peoples."--Book cover Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 249-258 Subject Dwellings -- Southeast Asia. Dwellings -- Indonesia. Vernacular architecture -- Southeast Asia. Vernacular architecture -- Indonesia. SUBJECT Asia, Southeastern -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117018 Indonesia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115476 Author Ting, John (Lecturer) ISBN 0500280304

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