Houses Transformed : Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building / edited by Jonathan Alderman and Rosalie Stolz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alderman, Jonathan, editor.

Stolz, Rosalie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernacular architecture.

Dwellings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Jonathan Alderman is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of St Andrews, and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of London. Rosalie Stolz is the principal investigator of the Project Construction Pioneers: Building Innovation in Upland Northern Laos at the University of Cologne, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Summary:

"Over the decades, there has been a world-wide transformation of so-called 'vernacular houses'. Based on ethnographic accounts from different regions, Houses Transformed investigates the changing practices of building houses in a transnational context. It explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology as well as the rhetoric of the vernacular. The volume provides new anthropological pathways to understanding the dynamics of dwelling in the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Anthropology and the Study of Architecture at a Time of Rapid Change

Chapter 2. Lives of the House: Tracing Kinship through the Biography of Houses in Norway

Chapter 3. The New London Vernacular: Architecture and the Politics of Community-Building in Londons Olympic Park

Chapter 4. The Changing Temporalities and Ecologies of House Production in an Age of Translocalisation: Instances in Kerala and West Bengal, India

Chapter 5. In Pursuit of a Modern Home: Shared Vernacular Temporalities and Modern Aspirations of the Nationals and Transnationals in Qatar

Chapter 6. There Are No Winds: Sensory Dimensions of the Shifting Materiality of Houses and the Community of Sounds in Northern Laos

Chapter 7. Pretty but Too Hot, It Smells Like Bat Urine: Public Funded Housing for a Waorani Village in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Chapter 8. The Social Creativity of Remittance Houses: Reconfiguring Space and Social Relations in Guatemala

Chapter 9. Not Vernacular Enough: Dwellings of No Architectural Significance and the New Anthropology of Housing

Chapter 10. Adobe Houses and State Social Housing in Rural Andean Bolivia

Chapter 11. New Materials, Different Spatialities, Same Houses? Domestic Architectures and Techniques among Pastoralist Communities in the Andean Highlands (Jujuy, Argentina)

Chapter 12. From Graves and Churches to Houses: Managing the Temporalities of Sociopolitical Presences in Vanuatu (NineteenthTwenty-First Centuries)

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2024)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781805392378

1805392379

9781805392323

1805392328

OCLC:

1412622845