The Architecture of Life and Death in Borneo / / Robert L. Winzeler.

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• VerfasserIn: Winzeler, Robert L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Among Borneo's spectacular indigenous buildings, the longhouses, mortuary monuments, and other architectural forms of the interior are some of the most outstanding, and much of the renewed interest in indigenous architecture has focused on the rapidly vanishing or now extinct traditional forms of a small number of surviving examples or recreations. Drawing on the author's extensive research and travel in Borneo, this impressive and original study offers a more comprehensive account of this architecture than any previous work. Organized into two sections, the book first documents and explains traditional built forms in terms of tools and materials, the environmental context, village organization, and social arrangements. This section includes a full discussion of architecture designs and symbolism, especially those dealing with life and death. The author next looks at the destruction or transformation of traditional architecture based on a number of interrelated developments, including religious conversion, Western influence, internal migration, and logging, as well as governmental attitudes and efforts. The book concludes with a discussion of recent efforts to document and preserve traditional structures and turn indigenous as well as colonial architecture into history and heritage.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: Traditional Forms -- CHAPTER ONE. THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF THE INTERIOR: AN OVERVIEW -- CHAPTER TWO .THE LONGHOUSE -- CHAPTER THREE .THE ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM OF LIFE AND DEATH -- PART TWO: Modern Transformations -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIDAYUH ARCHITECTURE -- CHAPTER FIVE. TWO PATTERNS OF CHANGE -- CHAPTER SIX. MODERN USES AND THE FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS ARCHITECTURE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF SOURCES AND CREDITS -- INDEX