Main entry:

Bourdier, Jean-Paul.

Title & Author:

Drawn from African dwellings / Jean-Paul Bourdier and Trinh T. Minh-ha.

Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1996.

Description:

xiii, 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and index.
Picturing Soninke dwellings (Reflections: The Drawn image) -- A Drop of milk (Fulbe) (White river, black river, The Mythical bovid, The Power of the spoken word, A Bond of coming-and-going, One in three and three in one: Dwelling in the Ferlo Desert, The family pond and the first social triangle:Dwelling in Bundu) -- The Word of night and light (Tokolor)(Those who lead in prayers, Dwelling along the Senegal River, The Compound: A Global concept of family, The Triangles of heaven and earth, The Veil of light, Dwelling as praying, "In the face of the dying sun") -- Picturing Fulaadu Fulbe and Mandingo dwellings (Reflections: The Written text) -- The House of prayer (Tokolor) (The man with one thousand sciences, "Nowhere is there a simpler worship", The Older mosques of Futa Toro, The "Sudano-Sahelian" style: Mediating the round with the square, Indirect lighting and the Dogon link, Marking the light of darkness) -- Picturing Jaxanke dwellings -- Ties of the pants, ties of the breast (Sereer)(The Tree of life, Megaliths and sand tumuli, Two brothers and the pact of loyalty, A Triadic distribution of power, Bilinear ties and the triangle of growth, A Present of the earth and the sky) -- Picturing Bassari dwellings (Reflections: "The Bird's-eye view") -- Rice and rain (Joola)(Builders of "Earthen castles", God was a potter, The Collective impluvium house, The House as rice granary, Red and indigo black, The Bull: Sign of death, source of life).
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This exquisitely illustrated study takes us into the traditionally built dwellings of African society. This "life-in-architecture" material culture reveals the socioeconomic and cosmological organization and the world views of these societies. Bourdier and Trinh connect structural patterns - setting, design, decoration, orientation - to factors such as kinship, gender, history, religion, poetry, and oral traditions. The authors focus on a variety of African peoples, including the Fulbe, Tokolor, Sereer, Joola, Soninke, Mandingo, Jaxanke, and Bassari. Through photographs, beautifully detailed drawings, and theoretical reflections, Bourdier and Trinh challenge the common perception that traditional dwellings are static artifacts.

ISBN:

0253330432 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780253330437 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Vernacular architecture Africa, West.
Symbolism in architecture Africa, West.
Housing, Rural Africa, West.
Architecture vernaculaire Afrique occidentale.
Symbolisme en architecture Afrique occidentale.
Logement rural Afrique occidentale.
Housing, Rural.
Symbolism in architecture.
Vernacular architecture.
Architektur
Ländlicher Raum
Symbol
Volksarchitektur
Bouwkunst.
Huisvesting.
Constructions rurales Afrique occidentale.
Signs and symbols in architecture Africa, West.
West Africa.
Westafrika

Added entries:

Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), 1952-

African dwellings

Holdings:

Location: Library main 120233
Call No.: ID NA1598.B68; ID:96-B427
Status: Available