Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell.
For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording these sagas in an attempt to uncover humanity's relationship with the common dwelling. Fundamental to the interaction of humans and housing is the way people shape their living spaces, even redefining their purposes and meanings; their houses, in turn, influence how people live their lives and perpetuate the cultural structures that produced a given form of shelter.
The stories draw attention to colonial and missionary agendas, local and global economies,...
Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell.
For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording these sagas in an attempt t...
Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell.
For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording these sagas in an attempt to uncover humanity's relationship with the common dwelling. Fundamental to the interaction of humans and housing is the way people shape their living spaces, even redefining their purposes and meanings; their houses, in turn, influence how people live their lives and perpetuate the cultural structures that produced a given form of shelter.
The stories draw attention to colonial and missionary agendas, local and global economies,...
Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell.
For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording these sagas in an attempt t...