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

Waterson, Roxana,

The living house : an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia / Roxana Waterson. - xix, 263 pages, 15 unnumbered pages de pl. : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index. Bibliogr.: p. 249-258. Index.

Preface and Acknowledgements -- Colour Plates -- Figures -- Introduction -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

0195885546 9780195885545


Dwellings--Social aspects--Southeast Asia
Architecture, Domestic--Southeast Asia


Southeast Asia--Social life and customs

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