Structure and Meaning in Human Settlement

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

This book explores the relationships between form, space, and cultural meaning in human habitation. Authors from a variety of disciplines and international sites address the possibilities of common ground in architectural theories about place and dwelling, anthropological research on settlement archaeology, and the study of cultural landscapes and geography. Illustrated with 220 full-color images, this book is a unique attempt to combine thinking about cultural meaning in space and settlements, both ancient and contemporary.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-11-28
Mått:235 x 311 x 33 mm
Vikt:2 092 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology a
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
ISBN:9781931707831

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword 1. Building and knowing2. Animal settlements: ecological functionalism of animal architecture3. Settlement patterns in Americanist archaeology4. The idea of a Maya town5. Cosmological structures of ancient Egyptian city planning6. Mohenjo-Daro: the symbolic landscape of an ancient city7. Holy mountains8. The ontological structure of mediance as a ground of meaning in architecture9. Three gestures in a poetics of place : Chinese settlement and disruption10. The language of cultural memory in Chinese gardens11. A culture without a temple: ritual landscape sanctuaries and female superiority in state religion in Ryukyu12. Etruscan boundaries and prophecy13. Razing the roof: the imperative of building destruction in Danhome (Dahomey)14. Signs of the ancestors: an archaeology of mesa villages of the Pueblo revolt15. Imagining the past16. The oasis model17. The evolution of settlement: fieldwork at Zuni Pueblo 1995-9718. The primitive origins of modern architecture: Le Corbusier's Voyage to the East19. Symbolic settlements: the American ideological tension between private homes and public housing20. Transplanting the New Jersey Turnpike to China21. Landscape ecology and cities22. Settlements after now23. 21st century nomadism and settlement24. Materials matter in urban architecture