Dualism in the Javanese House and Transformation With focus on the houses of Kotagede, Yogyakarta
The Javanese in Indonesia believe that the cosmos (the natural world) is composed of various opposing concepts – day and night, brightness and darkness, heaven and earth, left and right, male and female, etc. Given that Javanese people perceive a house as a microcosm of the natural universe, they se...
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Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2018-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3130/jaabe.17.71 |