Houses Transformed: Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building
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Houses Transformed: Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building

Houses Transformed: Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building

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Rosalie Stolz (Contributor) Jonathan Alderman (Contributor)  

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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 understanding the dynamics of dwelling in the 21st century.
Rosalie Stolz is currently Guest Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and is the principal investigator of the project 'Construction Pioneers: Building Innovation in Upland Northern Laos', funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. She is the author of Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits (NIAS Press, 2021).
  • Contributor: Rosalie Stolz
  • Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN13: 9781805392316
  • Number of Pages: 392
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Release Date: 2024-01-05
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Rosalie Stolz is currently Guest Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and is the principal investigator of the project 'Construction Pioneers: Building Innovation in Upland Northern Laos', funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. She is the author of Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits (NIAS Press, 2021).

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