The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

This work presents a detailed description of the centrally significant role of houses in South-East Asian social systems. Focusing on Indonesia, the book traces the historical links between architectural forms, revealing a much wider field of enquiry, closely related to the distribution of Austronesian languages and cultures, and extending as far as Madagascar, Japan, and Oceania. A vivid picture of how people shape buildings and buildings shape people, this study provides new insights into kinship systems, gender symbolism, cosmological ideas, and life itself.Waterson, Roxana is the author of 'The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia', published 1990 under ISBN 9780195889413 and ISBN 019588941X.