The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment / / ed. by Amos Rapoport.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1976
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (505 p.) :; Num. figs
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Table of Contents:
  • I-XVI
  • SECTION ONE: General Papers
  • Introduction
  • Sociocultural Aspects of Man-Environment Studies
  • The Social Function of the Built Environment
  • Cultural Pluralism and Urban Form: The Colonial City as Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research in Man-Environment Interaction
  • How Can We Learn about Man and His Settlements?
  • SECTION TWO: Human Characteristics
  • Introduction
  • Design for Man-Environment Relations
  • Human Territoriality as an Object of Research in Cultural Anthropology
  • The Social Properties of Places and Things
  • Some Territorial Layouts in the United States
  • SECTION THREE: Environments
  • Introduction
  • A Description of the Maori Marae
  • Peasant House Building and Its Relation to Church Building: The Rumanian Case
  • SECTION FOUR: Mechanisms
  • Introduction
  • Analysis of a Culture Through Its Culturemes: Theory and Method
  • A Decision Model for Estimating Concurrent School Attendance among Tribal Peoples of Liberia, Together with an Application Regarding Differential Cognitions Toward Traditional Housing
  • Housing Standards versus Ecological Forces: Regulating Population Density in Bombay
  • Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture
  • Values, Science, and Settlement: A Case Study in Environmental Control
  • Landscape and the Communication of Social Identity
  • SECTION FIVE: Case Studies
  • Introduction
  • Residential Patterns and Population Movement into the Farmlands of Yorubaland
  • A Process of Urbanization: Economic and Social Innovations in a Suburban Village at Fukuyama, Japan
  • Preindustrial Kabul: Its Structure and Function in Transformational Processes in Afghanistan
  • Problems Involved in the Human Aspects of Rural Resettlement Schemes in Egypt
  • SECTION SIX: Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects