The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

By Roxana Waterson.

The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

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The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples. The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, it reveals a much wider field of inquiry—covering all of the Austronesian peoples and cultures extending as far afield as Madagascar, Japan and the Pacific islands to New Zealand and Hawaii. ...

ISBN(s)

0804844445, 9780804844444

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