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Waterson, Roxana.

The Living House : an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia. / txt Roxana Waterson. - xix, 263 p. , [16] p. of plates ill. ; (some col.), maps ; plans ; 26 cm. book

Previous edition published: London : Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.

Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments vi --
Colour Plates vii --
Figures ix --
Introduction xv --
1 Origins 1 --
2 Perceptions of Built Form: Indigenous and Colonial 27 --
3 The Interrelation of Built Forms 43 --
4 Technology and Symbolism 73 --
5 Cosmologies 91 --
6 The Living House 115 --
7 Kinship and House Societies 138 --
8 Space and the Shaping of Social Relations 167 --
9 Houses of the Dead 199 --
10 Migrations 229 --
Bibliography 249 --
Index 259 --


ISBN: 9780804841207 0804841209

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Dwellings--Indonesia.
Vernacular architecture--Southeast Asia.
Vernacular architecture--Indonesia.
Dwellings--Southeast Asia.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Indonesia--Social life and customs.
Southeast Asia.--Social life and customs.

LC Class. No.: GT359 / W38 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 392/.36/00959 307.3360959