Title & Author:

Inside Austronesian houses : perspectives on domestic designs for living / edited by James J. Fox.

Publication:

Canberra : Published by the Dept. of Anthropology in association with the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, 1993.

Description:

x, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
"A publication of the Department of Anthropology as part of the Comparative Austronesian Project ..."
Includes bibliographical references.
Comparative perspectives on Austronesian houses : An introductory essay / James J. Fox -- The Lahanan longhouse / Jennifer Alexander -- Good walls make bad neighbours : The Dayak longhouse as a community of voices / Christine Helliwell -- Posts, hearths and thresholds : The Iban longhouse as a ritual structure / Clifford Sather -- Raising the house post and feeding the husband-givers : The spatial categories of social reproduction among the Minangkabau / Cecilia Ng -- Memories of ridge-poles and cross-beams : The categorical foundations of a Rotinese cultural design / James J. Fox -- The Kaluana house of secrets / Michael W. Young -- Maori meeting-houses in and over time / Toon van Meijl -- Houses and the built environment in island south-east Asia : Tracing some shared themes in the uses of space / Roxana Waterson.

Summary:

The papers in this volume examine the spatial organization of a variety of Austronesian houses and relate the domestic design of these houses to the social and ritual practices of the specific groups who reside within them. The houses considered range from longhouses in Borneo to the meeting-houses of the Maori of New Zealand and from the magnificent houses of the Minangkabau of Sumatra to the simpler dwellings of the population of Goodenough Island in Papua New Guinea. Together these papers indicate common features of domestic design from island South-East Asia to Melanesia and the Pacific.

ISBN:

0731515951
9780731515950
0731515781
9780731515783

Subject:

Vernacular architecture Oceania.
Architecture, Domestic Social aspects Oceania.
Vernacular architecture Malay Archipelago.
Architecture, Domestic Social aspects Malay Archipelago.
Vernacular architecture New Zealand.
Architecture, Domestic Social aspects New Zealand.
Architecture vernaculaire Océanie.
Architecture vernaculaire Insulinde.
Architecture vernaculaire Nouvelle-Zélande.
Architecture, Domestic Social aspects.
Vernacular architecture.
Innenarchitektur
Aufsatzsammlung
Austronesier
Huisvesting.
Sociale aspecten.
Bouwkunst.
Austronesiërs.
Architecture domestique Aspect social Océanie.
Architecture vernaculaire Malaisie.
Architecture domestique Aspect social Malaisie.
Architecture domestique Aspect social Nouvelle-Zélande.
Hoahoanga whare.
Whare hui.
Whare nui.
Whare tūpuna.
Whare whakairo.
Wharepuni.
Asia Malay Archipelago.
New Zealand.
Oceania.

Added entries:

Fox, James J., 1940-
Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222078
Call No.: NA7468.9.A1 I5 1993
Status: Available