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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452423403321

Autore

Jarzombek Mark

Titolo

Architecture of first societies [[electronic resource] ] : a global perspective / / Mark Jarzombek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013

ISBN

1-118-42105-1

1-118-41921-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (673 p.)

Disciplina

722

Soggetti

Architecture, Prehistoric

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Foundations -- pt. 2. Transitions.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is the most comprehensively global and critically sensitive synthesis of what we now know of the material and socio-cultural evolution of the so-called First Societies. Written by a distinguished architectural historian and theorist, this truly remarkable and indispensable study shows how the material culture of our forebears, from building to clothing, food, ritual and dance, was inextricably bound up with the mode of survival obtained in a particular place and time...It is a study that will surely become required reading for every student of material culture."-Kenneth Frampton