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Indigenous Architecture in India

Exploring Plural Lifeworlds
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This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. The chapters deal with different ideas and definitions of indigeneity, while also addressing the complex equations between the production and perception of built forms, indigenous technologies, on the one hand, and social, environmental and political contexts, questions of aesthetics, identity, and self-representation on the other. From Adivasi art and sacred sites to craft villages and nomadic pastoralists in western India, from indigenous bangle makers in urban north India to terracotta crafts people on the south, each chapter focuses on different communities and the contours of their contemporary lifeworlds. The contributions activelt attemot to foreground the logic and perspectives of the communities themselves as the epistemological centre of the architectural and material discourses on indigeneity. This book will be useful for students, teachers and researchers of architecture, urban design, urban studies, urban development and planning, anthropology, sociology, and museum studies. It will also be of interest to urban planners and designers, policy planners, local government authorities and professionals engaged in the discipline.

Author Biography:

Gauri Bharat is associate professor and Program Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. Her current research has developed in two key areas. The first focus area is lived histories, where she explores how built environments in the past were shaped by and in turn shaped the individual and collective lives of people. There are currently three publications in the works, exploring neighbourhoods and streets of Ahmedabad as socio-spatial formations. The second major focus area is histories of making. This consolidated with a grant from the Graham Foundation in 2019 for a project on the history of reinforced concrete use in the Indian subcontinent.
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June 21st, 2024
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  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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9 Line drawings, black and white; 40 Halftones, black and white; 49 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
180
ISBN-13
9781032374840
Product ID
38546081

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