Quarto (approx. 8 3/4" wide by 11 1/4" tall / 28.5 cm), maroon cloth covers, 431 pages. Illustrated in both black and white and color. Includes glossary and index. Book is in fine condition, no names or marks. Dust jacket spine sunned, a little waviness on top panel, still very good. Co-authored by an architect and an anthropologist. 071202B. This oversize, heavy book may incur a surcharge for expedited or international shipping. Architecture, Indians.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

NATIVE AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE.

Verlag

Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0195037812

ISBN-13

9780195037814

Einband

hardcover

Zustand

Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

very good

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Native Americans

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This book is the first full length, illustrated study of North American Indian architecture to appear in a century.

The product of a collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, the book presents the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional profiles covering the continent - from the huge, plankhouse villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest.

This book is far more than a survey of buildings. Its multidisciplinary approach offers a broad, clear view of the Native American world, resulting in a new understanding of the meaning of their buildings and culture. Nabokov and Easton describe how Indian buildings, as a central element of their culture, were the symbolic summation of tribal activity, and how the settlements secured for their inhabitants a sense of "place" in the environment. The book introduces us to the ancient social customs, economic ways of life, and technological skills of each tribe, emphasizing the major role played by cosmological concepts and ritual life in their architectural systems. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices under revival or in danger today.

The book uses historical photographs and drawings, architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal housetypes. Native American Architecture is a major contribution to the expanding worldwide interest in vernacular architecture - a milestone in scholarly investigation and cultural reconstruction.

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Peter Nabokov, an anthropologist, has taught in the Department of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrier and The Architecture of the American Pueblo among other books. Robert Easton, a noted California architect, has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles and is co-editor of the acclaimed Shelter and Domebook.

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