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 --