The vanishing traces : vernacular housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts /
This book is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture. The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. I...
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Bangkok, Thailand : White Lotus Press,
2013
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| description | This book is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture. The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. It is the home of a number of Tibeto-Burman tribal groups, quite different from the mainstream Bangladeshi population. The vernacular housing of these communities is also unique and adapted sustainably to the hilly context, but for a variety of reasons is undergoing transformation, particularly the influence of the housing patterns of the mainstream population of the floodplains. The Chittagong Hill Tract housing styles and techniques are a valuable cultural resource; it is important to have a record of them before they vanish. This book brings together a compilation of the housing patterns of eleven of the main ethnic groups, including extensive photographs and drawings. A key question regarding the future uncertainty of the vernacular housing of these communities is ultimately posed: Will this unique and valuable cultural resource be eventually subsumed within the broader social, cultural and economic transformations that are not only local, but global? |
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| spelling | KOHA-OAI-TEST:5240692020-12-19T17:19:42ZThe vanishing traces : vernacular housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts / Ahmed, K. Iftekhar, author. Bangkok, Thailand : White Lotus Press,2013engThis book is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture. The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. It is the home of a number of Tibeto-Burman tribal groups, quite different from the mainstream Bangladeshi population. The vernacular housing of these communities is also unique and adapted sustainably to the hilly context, but for a variety of reasons is undergoing transformation, particularly the influence of the housing patterns of the mainstream population of the floodplains. The Chittagong Hill Tract housing styles and techniques are a valuable cultural resource; it is important to have a record of them before they vanish. This book brings together a compilation of the housing patterns of eleven of the main ethnic groups, including extensive photographs and drawings. A key question regarding the future uncertainty of the vernacular housing of these communities is ultimately posed: Will this unique and valuable cultural resource be eventually subsumed within the broader social, cultural and economic transformations that are not only local, but global?Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96).This book is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture. The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. It is the home of a number of Tibeto-Burman tribal groups, quite different from the mainstream Bangladeshi population. The vernacular housing of these communities is also unique and adapted sustainably to the hilly context, but for a variety of reasons is undergoing transformation, particularly the influence of the housing patterns of the mainstream population of the floodplains. The Chittagong Hill Tract housing styles and techniques are a valuable cultural resource; it is important to have a record of them before they vanish. This book brings together a compilation of the housing patterns of eleven of the main ethnic groups, including extensive photographs and drawings. A key question regarding the future uncertainty of the vernacular housing of these communities is ultimately posed: Will this unique and valuable cultural resource be eventually subsumed within the broader social, cultural and economic transformations that are not only local, but global?PSZJBL Architecture, Domestic Vernacular architecture Architecture, DomesticURN:ISBN:9789744801005 |
| spellingShingle | Architecture, Domestic Vernacular architecture Architecture, Domestic Ahmed, K. Iftekhar, author. The vanishing traces : vernacular housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts / |
| title | The vanishing traces : vernacular housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts / |
| title_full | The vanishing traces : vernacular housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts / |
| title_fullStr | The vanishing traces : vernacular housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts / |
| title_full_unstemmed | The vanishing traces : vernacular housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts / |
| title_short | The vanishing traces : vernacular housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts / |
| title_sort | vanishing traces vernacular housing of the chittagong hill tracts |
| topic | Architecture, Domestic Vernacular architecture Architecture, Domestic |
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