Houses Transformed

Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building

Jonathan Alderman, Rosalie Stolz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-231-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Jonathan Alderman is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of St Andrews, and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of London.

List of Figures

Introduction: Houses Transformed – Transforming Houses

Rosalie Stolz

Chapter 1. Anthropology and the Study of Architecture at a Time of Rapid Change

Marcel Vellinga

Chapter 2. Lives of the House: Tracing Kinship through the Biography of Houses in Norway

Simone Abram and Marianne Lien

Chapter 3. The ‘New London Vernacular’: Architecture and the Politics of Community-Building in London’s Olympic Park

Saffron Woodcraft

Chapter 4.The Changing Temporalities and Ecologies of House Production in an Age of Trans-localization: Instances in Kerala and West Bengal, India

Elisa T. Bertuzzo

Chapter 5. In Pursuit of a Modern Home: Shared Vernacular Temporalities and Modern Aspirations of the Nationals and Transnationals in Qatar

Gizem Kahraman Aksoy

Chapter 6. ‘There Are No Winds’: Sensory Dimensions of the Shifting Materiality of Houses and the Community of Sounds in Northern Laos

Rosalie Stolz

Chapter 7. ‘Pretty butToo Hot, It Smells Like Bat Urine’: Public Funded Housing for a Waorani Village in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Andrea Bravo Diaz

Chapter 8.The Social Creativity of Remittance Houses: Reconfiguring Space and Social Relations in Guatemala

Andrea Freddi

Chapter 9. Not Vernacular Enough: Dwellings of No Architectural Significance and the New Anthropology of Housing

Eli Elinoff

Chapter 10. Vernacular Adobe Houses and State Social Housing in Rural Andean Bolivia

Jonathan Alderman

Chapter 11. New Materials, Different Spatialities, Same Houses? Domestic Architectures and Techniques among Pastoralists Communities in the Andean Highlands (Jujuy, Argentina)

Julieta Barada and Jorge Tomasi

Afterword

Jonathan Alderman

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-80539-231-X / 180539231X
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-231-6 / 9781805392316
Zustand	Neuware