Author: JOWA IMRE KIS-JOVAK
Title: Banua Toraja. Changing patterns in architecture and symbolism among the Sa'dan Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Description: Royal Tropical Institute Press, 1988. Paperback. Pp: 135. The daring and elegant houses and rice barns of the Sa'dan Toraja can claim a place among the world's most impressive forms of vernacular architecture. The aim of this book was to compile a description and interpretation of the various building forms and of their different levels of meaning. The houses of the Toraja, some of them more than three hundred years old, show a development in time with an increasing accent on refinementand ostentatious display. The house is of pivotal symbolic significance to the Toraja. It serves as an expression of the universe in it's entirety: it forms a cosmos in miniature. ISBN: 9789068322071. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9789068322071
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Title: Banua Toraja. Changing patterns in architecture and symbolism among the Sa'dan Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Description: Royal Tropical Institute Press, 1988. Paperback. Pp: 135. The daring and elegant houses and rice barns of the Sa'dan Toraja can claim a place among the world's most impressive forms of vernacular architecture. The aim of this book was to compile a description and interpretation of the various building forms and of their different levels of meaning. The houses of the Toraja, some of them more than three hundred years old, show a development in time with an increasing accent on refinementand ostentatious display. The house is of pivotal symbolic significance to the Toraja. It serves as an expression of the universe in it's entirety: it forms a cosmos in miniature. ISBN: 9789068322071. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9789068322071
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 207146
- Book number: 207146
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