| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Contents |
AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 The Long Nineteenth Century; 2 Architecture and Archaeology; 3 Social Anthropology and the House Societies of Lévi-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; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced. With a focus on domestic space - that intimate context in which anthropologists traditionally work - 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. Each chapter uses a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) |
| Notes |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture and anthropology.
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Architecture and anthropology
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Architektur
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Ethnologie
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Arkitektur.
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Antropologi.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857853004 |
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0857853007 |
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1306729572 |
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9781306729574 |
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0857853015 |
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9780857853011 |
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9781474214179 |
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1474214177 |
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