An anthropology of architecture / Victor Buchli.

Main entry:

Buchli, Victor.

Title & Author:

An anthropology of architecture / Victor Buchli.

Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Description:

x, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201).
The long nineteenth century -- Architecture and archaeology -- Social anthropology and the house societies of Lévi-Strauss -- Institutions and community -- Consumption studies and the home -- Embodiment and architectural form -- Iconoclasm, decay, and the destruction of architectural forms.

Summary:

"With a focus on domestic space ... 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."--Back cover.

Resources:
EBSCOhost

ISBN:

9781845207823 (hardback)
1845207823 (hardback)
9781845207830 (paperback)
1845207831 (paperback)
(ePub)
9780857853011
0857853015
(ePDF)
9780857853004
0857853007

Subject:

Architecture and anthropology.
Architecture et anthropologie.
73.20 technological conditions of existence: general (ethnology)
Architektur
Ethnologie
Arkitektur.
Antropologi.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287497
Call No.: BIB 228577
Status: Available

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