Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks· 2013· Book chapter
An Anthropology of Architecture
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Short summary
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of how anthropologists have studied architectural forms and the resulting insights.
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Key points
- Provides the first overview of anthropological studies of architecture.
- Focuses on domestic space as a traditional anthropological context.
- Examines how architecture shapes social relations, gender, and materiality.
- Utilizes diverse global case studies to illustrate anthropological perspectives.
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Abstract
<JATS1:p>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.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>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.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>An Anthropology of Architecture is key reading for students of anthropology, material culture, geography, sociology, architectural theory, design and city planning.</JATS1:p>
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