An Anthropology of Architecture
Douban
Buchli, Victor
Sinossi
Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced. With a focus on domestic space - that intimate context in which anthropologists traditionally work - the book explains how anthropologists think about public and private boundaries, gender, sex and the body, the materiality of architectural forms and materials, building technologies and architectural representations. Each chapter uses a broad range of case studies from around the world to examine from within anthropology what architecture 'does' - how it makes people and shapes, sustains and unravels social relations. An Anthropology of Architecture is key reading for students of anthropology, material culture, geography, sociology, architectural theory, design and city planning.
contents
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction 1
1 The Long Nineteenth Century 19
2 Architecture and Archaeology 47
3 Social Anthropology and the House Societies of Lévi-Strauss 71
4 Institutions and Community 89
5 Consumption Studies and the Home 117
6 Embodiment and Architectural Form 137
7 Iconoclasm, Decay, and the Destruction of Architectural Forms 157
Postscript 179
Notes 187
Bibliography 189
Index 203
