Title: An anthropology of architecture /
Authors: Buchli, Victor.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Architecture and anthropology.
Abstract: "With a focus on domestic space...the book explains how anthropologists think about public and private boundaries, gender, sex and the body, the materiality of architectural forms and materials, building technologies and architectural representations."-- Back cover.
Contents: The long nineteenth century -- Architecture and archaeology -- Social anthropology and the house societies of Lévi-Strauss -- Institutions and community -- Consumption studies and the home -- Embodiment and architectural form -- Iconoclasm, decay, and the destruction of architectural forms.