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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, James J., 1940- editor.

Australian National University. Department of Anthropology.

Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project.

Series:

Comparative Austronesian Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dwellings--Southeast Asia.

Dwellings.

Southeast Asia--Social life and customs.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University E Press, 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The eight 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 in this volume 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. This volume is a publication of the Research School of Pacific Studies' Comparative Austronesian Project.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 19, 2020).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781920942847

192094284X

OCLC:

225298594

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_459294