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Record Nr.

UNISA996217045403316

Titolo

Inside Austronesian houses : perspectives on domestic designs for living / / edited by James J. Fox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University E Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-920942-84-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

307.336

Soggetti

Dwellings - Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

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.