Native American ArchitectureNative American Architecture, is the first book-length, fully illustrated study of North American Indian architecture to appear in a century. The product of 15 years of research by an architect and an anthropologist, the book presents the building traditions of the major tribes in nineregional profiles covering the continent--from the huge, plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the Moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast to the Navajo hogans and adobe Pueblos of the Southwest.This innovative book is far more than a survey of buildings. Its multidisciplinary approach offers a broad, clear view of the Native American world, resulting in a new understanding of the meaning of their buildings and culture. Nabokov and Easton describe how Indian buildings, as a centralelement of their culture, were the symbolic summation of tribal activity, and how the settlements secured for their inhabitants a sense of "place" in the environment. Native American architecture, the authors write, must be defined as more than buildings, villages, or camps; the definition mustinclude their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. The book thus introduces us to the ancient social customs, economic ways of life, and technological skills of each tribe, emphasizing the major role played by cosmological concepts and ritual life intheir architectural systems. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices under revival or in danger today.A visually exciting book using historical photographs and drawings, architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal housetypes, Native American Architecture is a major contribution to the expanding worldwide interest invernacular architecture--a milestone in scholarly investigation and cultural reconstruction. |
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TRIBES AND LANGUAGE GROUPS | 6 |
WIGWAM and LONGHOUSE | 52 |
MOUND TOWN and CHICKEE | 93 |
EARTHLODGE GRASS HOUSE and TIPI | 123 |
PIT HOUSE and EXTENDED TIPI | 174 |
WINTER HOUSE IGLU and TENT | 188 |
PLANK HOUSE 226 | 205 |
Sketch of Zuni Pueblo New Mexico by 7 WOOD EARTH and FIBER | 286 |
Lewis Henry Morgan after 1853 CALIFORNIA | 322 |
PUEBLO | 348 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 411 |
GLOSSARY | 425 |
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