Spirit structures of Papua New Guinea: art and architecture in the Kaiaimunucene
"This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures, with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea th...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Abingdon, Oxon
Routledge,
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge research in architecture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Papua New Guinea
/ Cultic house
/ Architecture
/ Myth
/ Ritual
/ World view
B Social order / Ethnology / Social anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirit houses (Religious facility) (Papua New Guinea)
B Architecture and anthropology (Papua New Guinea) B Reference / ARCHITECTURE B Papua New Guinea Religion B ARCHITECTURE / Generals B Art and anthropology (Papua New Guinea) |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | "This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures, with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that exists to date. The book's aim is twofold: First, it aims to investigate the spirit structures and their associated cultural cosmos in detail. For this purpose, a representative selection of traditional buildings and art works from different regions of Papua New Guinea is documented and analyzed, and theories for their understanding are formulated. In this course, the author develops a spatial theory of anthropological concepts - such as myths, signs, persons, and rituals. Secondly, this analysis is then situated in the broader context of the Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. Transforming the historical spirit structures into models for future-oriented cultural imagination, consequences for contemporary productions of space and ways of worldmaking in light of existential challenges are traced. The book thus offers more-than-human and more-than-secular concepts for building and art and worldmaking that are of critical importance in the ongoing Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, anthropology, cultural studies, environmental humanities and adjacent disciplines"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Part I translated from German by Melanie Janet Sindelar." Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 288 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-003-38476-2 1-003-38476-5 978-1-040-03550-4 1-040-03550-7 978-1-040-03559-7 1-040-03559-0 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781003384762 |
