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Author Buchli, Victor

Title An anthropology of architecture / Victor Buchli
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Contents 1. The Long Nineteenth Century -- 2. Architecture and Archaeology -- 3. Social Anthropology and the House Societies of Levi-Strauss -- 4. Institutions and Community -- 5. Consumption Studies and the Home -- 6. Embodiment and Architectural Form -- 7. Iconoclasm, Decay, and the Destruction of Architectural Forms
Summary "With a focus on domestic space ... the book explains how anthropologists think about public and private boundaries, gender, sex and the body, the materiality of architectural forms and materials, building technologies and architectural representations."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Architecture and anthropology.
Theory of architecture.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Architecture and anthropology
Architektur
Ethnologie
Arkitektur.
Antropologi.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857853011
0857853015
9781003084457
1003084451