An anthropology of architecture / Victor Buchli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchli, Victor, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury architecture library.

Bloomsbury architecture library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the rich thought and data this has produced. With a focus on domestic space, it explains how anthropologists think about public and private boundaries, gender, sex and the body, the materiality of architectural forms and materials, and architectural representations.

Contents:

Preface Chapter 1: The Long Nineteenth Century: Collecting Primitive Huts and Thinking Through Origins Chapter 2: Architecture and Archaeology Chapter 3: Social Anthropology and the House Societies of Levi-Strauss Chapter 4: Institutions and Community Chapter 5: Consumption Studies and the Home Chapter 6: Embodiment and Architectural Form Chapter 7: Anthropology, Representation and Architecture Chapter 8: Iconoclasm, Decay and the Destruction of Architectural Forms PostscriptBibliographyIndex

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Digital resource published 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 30, 2018).

ISBN:

9781003084457

1003084451

9781000183900

1000183904

9781000180725

1000180727

9781474214179

1474214177

9780857853011

0857853015

9780857853004

0857853007

OCLC:

1155638056