Architecture and anthropology / edited by Adam Jasper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction - Anthropology and architecture: a misplaced conversation / Adam Jasper -- Towards an architectural anthropology--what architects can learn from anthropology and vice versa / Marie Stender -- Nature versus denture: an ontology of dental prostheses / Iman Ansari -- Occlusions of the operational sequence: a coincidental conversation between Robert Matthew and André Leroi-Gourhan in six diagrams / Alessandro Zambelli -- Imaging vernacular architecture: a dialogue with anthropology on building process / Dilshad Ara and Mamun Rashid -- The emergence of an architectural anthropology in aboriginal Australia: the work of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre / Paul Memmott and Cathy Keys -- The house that Semper built / Elena Chestnova -- How to love modern [post-] Colonial architecture: rethinking memory in Angola and Mozambique cities / Ana Tostões -- The semio-pragmatics of architecture / Godofredo Enes Pereira and Susana Caló -- The urban microclimate as artefact: reassessing climate and culture studies in architecture and anthropology / Sascha Roesler -- Mauri-Ora: architecture, indigeneity, and immanence ethics / Amanda Yates -- A conversation with architects: Paul Oliver and the anthropology of shelter / Marcel Vellinga.

"Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment. Throughout the 19th century, the fields shared a common icon-the primitive hut-and a common concern with both routine needs and ceremonial behaviours. Both could lay strong claims to a special knowledge of the everyday. And yet, in the 20th century, notwithstanding genre classics such as Bernard Rudofsky's Architecture without Architects or Paul Oliver's Shelter, and various attempts to make architecture anthropocentric (such as Corbusier's Modulor), disciplinary exchanges between architecture and anthropology were often disappointingly slight. This book attempts to locate the various points of departure that might be taken in a contemporary discussion between architecture and anthropology."--Publisher's website.