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1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Houses: An Introductory Essay / James J. Fox -- The Lahanan Longhouse / Jennifer Alexander -- Good Walls Make Bad Neighbours: The Dayak Longhouse as a Community of Voices / Christine Helliwell -- Posts, Hearths and Thresholds: The Iban Longhouse as a Ritual Structure / Clifford Sather -- Raising the House Post and Feeding the Husband-Givers: The spatial categories of social reproduction among the Minangkabau / Cecilia Ng -- Memories of Ridge-Poles and Cross-Beams: The categorical foundations of a Rotinese cultural design / James J. Fox -- The Kalauna House of Secrets / Michael W. Young -- Maori Meeting-Houses in and Over Time / Toon van Meijl -- Houses and the Built Environment in Island South-East Asia: Tracing some shared themes in the uses of space / Roxana Waterson. |
| 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. 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."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Dwellings -- Southeast Asia.
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Dwellings -- Oceania.
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Southeast Asian -- Social life and customs.
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Oceania -- Social life and customs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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| Added Author |
Fox, James J., 1940-
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| ISBN |
9781920942847 (electronic bk.) |
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192094284X (electronic bk.) |
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0731515951 |
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9780731515950 |
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