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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.0966
EAN num: 9780253330437
ISBN number: 0253330432
Label: Indiana University Press
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 308
Printing Date: 1997-02
Publishing house: Indiana University Press
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This 'life-in-architecture' study displays the world view and the socio-economic and cosmological organization of several African peoples, including the Fulbe, Tokolor, Sereer, Joola, Soninke, Mandingo, Jaxanke, and Bassari. Bourdier and Trinh connect setting, design, decoration, and orientation to kinship, gender, history, oral traditions, poetry, and religions. Through photographs, drawings, and theoretical reflections, the authors challenge the common perception of traditional dwellings as static artifacts. Jean-Paul Bourdier's beautifully detailed drawings bring the material alive with cut-away bird's-eye views that reveal the complex patterning of structures and their relationship to inhabitants' activities.
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