Title Inside Austronesian houses : perspectives on domestic designs for living / edited by James J. Fox

Published Canberra : ANU E Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Comparative Austronesian series Contents Comparative perspectives on Austronesian houses : An introductory essay / James J. Fox -- The Lahanan longhouse / Jennifer Alexander -- Good walls make bad neighbours : The Dayak longhouse as a community of voices / Christine Helliwell -- Posts, hearths and thresholds : The Iban longhouse as a ritual structure / Clifford Sather -- Raising the house post and feeding the husband-givers : The spatial categories of social reproduction among the Minangkabau / Cecilia Ng -- Memories of ridge-poles and cross-beams : The categorical foundations of a Rotinese cultural design / James J. Fox -- The Kaluana house of secrets / Michael W. Young -- Maori meeting-houses in and over time / Toon van Meijl -- Houses and the built environment in island south-east Asia : Tracing some shared themes in the uses of space / Roxana Waterson Summary "The eight papers in this volume examine the spatial organization of a variety of Austronesian houses and relate the domestic design of these houses to the social and ritual practices of the specific groups who reside within them. The houses considered in this volume range from longhouses in Borneo to the meeting-houses of the Maori of New Zealand and from the magnificent houses of the Minangkabau of Sumatra to the simpler dwellings of the population of Goodenough Island in Papua New Guinea. Together these papers indicate common features of domestic design from island South-East Asia to Melanesia and the Pacific"-- Publisher's description Analysis Dwellings Social life Customs Southeast asia Oceania Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes "A publication of the Department of Anthropology as part of the Comparative Austronesian Project ..." English Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 22, 2017) Subject Vernacular architecture -- Oceania Architecture, Domestic -- Social aspects -- Oceania Vernacular architecture -- Malay Archipelago Architecture, Domestic -- Social aspects -- Malay Archipelago Vernacular architecture -- New Zealand Architecture, Domestic -- Social aspects -- New Zealand Dwellings -- Southeast Asia Dwellings -- Oceania Anthropology. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. Sociology and anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Architecture, Domestic -- Social aspects Dwellings Manners and customs Vernacular architecture SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Social life and customs Oceania -- Social life and customs Subject Asia -- Malay Archipelago New Zealand Oceania Southeast Asia Form Electronic book Author Fox, James J., 1940- Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project. ISBN 9781920942847 192094284X

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