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House Gods - Jim Kristofic

House Gods

Sustainable Buildings and Renegade Builders

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2022
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6365-7 (ISBN)
CHF 41,80 inkl. MwSt
Our buildings are making us sick. Our homes, offices, factories, and dormitories are, in some sense, a fresh parasite on the sacred Earth, Nahasdzáán. In search of a better way, author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects and builders who know how to make buildings that will take care of us. This is where he meets the House Gods who are building to the sun so that we can live on Earth. Forever.

In House Gods, Kristofic pursues the techniques of sustainable building and the philosophies of its practitioners. What emerges is a strange and haunting quest through adobe mud and mayhem, encounters with shamans and stray dogs, solar panels, tragedy, and true believers. It is a story about doing something meaningful, and about the kinds of things that grow out of deep pain. One of these things is compassion--from which may come solace. We build our buildings, we make our lives--we are the House Gods.

Jim Kristofic grew up on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He has written for The Navajo Times, Arizona Highways, Native Peoples Magazine, High Country News, and Parabola. He is the author of Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School and Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life and the coauthor of Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk (all from UNM Press). He lives in Taos, New Mexico.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Albuquerque, NM
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Heimwerken / Do it yourself
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-8263-6365-2 / 0826363652
ISBN-13 978-0-8263-6365-7 / 9780826363657
Zustand Neuware
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