Inside Austronesian houses perspectives on domestic designs for living
"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 Bo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra
ANU E Press
2006, 2006
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| Series: | Comparative Austronesian series
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | "A publication of the Department of Anthropology as part of the Comparative Austronesian Project ..." |
| Physical Description: | xii, 242 pages illustrations, maps |
| ISBN: | 9780731515950 0731515951 |