Houses Transformed

Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Jonathan Alderman, Rosalie Stolz, Jonathan Alderman Alderman

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Over the decades, there has been a world-wide transformation of so-called ‘vernacular houses’. Based on ethnographic accounts from different regions, Houses Transformed investigates the changing practices of building houses in a transnational context. It explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology as well as the rhetoric of the vernacular. The volume provides new anthropological pathways to understand the dynamics of dwelling in the 21st century.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-05
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt554 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor392
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781805392316

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List of FiguresIntroduction: Houses Transformed – Transforming HousesRosalie StolzChapter 1. Anthropology and the Study of Architecture at a Time of Rapid ChangeMarcel VellingaChapter 2. Lives of the House: Tracing Kinship through the Biography of Houses in NorwaySimone Abram and Marianne LienChapter 3. The ‘New London Vernacular’: Architecture and the Politics of Community-Building in London’s Olympic ParkSaffron WoodcraftChapter 4.The Changing Temporalities and Ecologies of House Production in an Age of Trans-localization: Instances in Kerala and West Bengal, IndiaElisa T. BertuzzoChapter 5. In Pursuit of a Modern Home: Shared Vernacular Temporalities and Modern Aspirations of the Nationals and Transnationals in QatarGizem Kahraman AksoyChapter 6. ‘There Are No Winds’: Sensory Dimensions of the Shifting Materiality of Houses and the Community of Sounds in Northern LaosRosalie StolzChapter 7. ‘Pretty butToo Hot, It Smells Like Bat Urine’: Public Funded Housing for a Waorani Village in Ecuadorian AmazoniaAndrea Bravo DiazChapter 8.The Social Creativity of Remittance Houses: Reconfiguring Space and Social Relations in GuatemalaAndrea FreddiChapter 9. Not Vernacular Enough: Dwellings of No Architectural Significance and the New Anthropology of HousingEli ElinoffChapter 10. Vernacular Adobe Houses and State Social Housing in Rural Andean BoliviaJonathan AldermanChapter 11. New Materials, Different Spatialities, Same Houses? Domestic Architectures and Techniques among Pastoralists Communities in the Andean Highlands (Jujuy, Argentina)Julieta Barada and Jorge TomasiAfterwordJonathan Alderman

“An interesting and worthwhile collection, covering a wide range of different themes relating to change and transformation related to the house.” • Monica Janowski, University of London“Houses Transformed is a timely and comprehensive volume which closely considers how different communities around the globe have similar or different responses to the pressures of contemporary lifestyles.” • Debbie Whelan, University of Lincoln