Allegorical architecture: living myth and architectonics in southern China
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Main Author: Ruan, Xing (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press c2006
Series:Spatial habitus (Series)
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-214) and index
1 - Architectonic fabrications of minorities -- - 2 - Myth and ritualistic postures -- - 3 - Choral symbolization -- - 4 - Type, myth, and heterogeneity -- - 5 - Out of time
"Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural analysis of built forms and building types of the minority groups in southern China and of the Dong nationality in particular. It argues that Dong architecture symbolically resembles it inhabitants in many ways."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 219 p.)
ISBN:1435665589
9781435665583

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