House Form and Culture by Amos Rapoport

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See especially p. 221: “Eskimos with a magnificent disregard for environmental determinism open up rather than enclose space. ” (New York: George Braziller, copyright @ 1966. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher. ) 6 Jean Guiart, Arts of the South Pacific, trans. A. Christie (New York: Golden Press, 1963), p. 10. 3 J. I-I. Steward, 20 During that period they lived in circular wooden houses 30 to 40 feet in diameter, with five-foot-high walls made of tree trunks and four central columns 14 feet high supporting rafters carrying branches, earth, and grass roofing.

For example, the Hidatsa of the Missouri valley were agriculturalists from April to November, growing corn, greens, and beans. , Handbook of South American Indians, ,Vol. 1 (Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1964), pp. 110, 120, 137. 4 Lord Raglan, The Temple and the Nouse (New York: W. W. , i964), Chaps, 5-8, pp. 42 ff. See also Aspects de la Maison dans le Mon Be (Brussels: Centre International d’etude Ethnographique de la Maison dans le Monde), p. 14. 5 Edmund Carpenter, “Image Making in Arctic Art,” in Sign, Image, Symbol, ed.

Dwellings made of one material (reeds). Left: UTU dwelling, Lake Titicaca, Peru. Right: Marsh Arab dwelling, Iraq&an border. FIG. 4. Dwellings made of one material (mud). Left: Iran. Right: Pueblos, southwestern United States. FIG. 5. Portable tents of sticks and felt. Left: Arab tent. Right: Mongol Yurt. FIG. 6. Two examples from the great range of house forms using thatch and wood as materials. Left: Masai dwelling (Africa). Right: Yagua dwelling (Amazon). 6 are not drawn to the same scale, but their s&e is indicated by comparison with the human figure.

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