An anthropology of architecture / Victor Buchli.
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TextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780857853011
- 0857853015
- Theory of architecture
- Architecture and anthropology
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Architecture and anthropology
- Architecture -- General
- Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
- 306.47 23
- NA2543.A58 B83 2013eb
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced.With a focus on domestic space - that intimate context in which anthropologists traditionally work - the book explains how anthropologists think about public and private boundaries, gender, sex and the body, the materiality of architectural forms and materials, building technologies and architectural representations. Each chapter uses a broad range of case studies from around the world to examine from within anthropology what architecture 'does' - how it makes people and shapes, sustains and unravels social relations. An Anthropology of Architecture is key reading for students of anthropology, material culture, geography, sociology, architectural theory, design and city planning.
Includes bibliographical references.