Architecture and ritual : how buildings shape society /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blundell Jones, Peter (Author)
Published: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xvii, 371 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-363) and index.
ISBN: 9781472577481 (paperback) :
1472577485 (paperback)
9781472577474 (hardback)
1472577477 (hardback)
9781472577498 (ePub)
1472577493 (ePub)
9781472577504 (ePDF)
1472577507 (ePDF)
Index Number: NA2543
CLC: TU-05
Call Number: TU-05/B658
Contents: Part 1. Power and politics : Black rod and the three knocks on the door -- The Lord Mayor's banquet -- The imperial Chinese magistrate and his yamen -- The Nuremberg Rally of 1934 -- Part 2. People and their territories : Hunter-gatherer architecture: the Australian aboriginal people -- The Oglala Sioux and the four directions -- The Tukanoan Maloca -- The Dogon of Mali -- The Dong, building types, and building rituals -- Part 3. Modernities : The European farmstead -- The modernist hospital -- The opera and the concert hall -- The fun palace, Centre Pompidou, and paradoxical ideas of freedom -- Conclusion.