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Inside Austronesian Houses - Whole Book (2.6 MB)

• Preliminary Pages
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Houses: An Introductory Essay
• Chapter 2. The Lahanan Longhouse
• Chapter 3. Good Walls Make Bad Neighbours: The Dayak Longhouse as a Community of Voices
• Chapter 4. Posts, Hearths and Thresholds: The Iban Longhouse as a Ritual Structure
• Chapter 5. Raising the House Post and Feeding the Husband-Givers: The spatial categories of social reproduction among the Minangkabau
• Chapter 6. Memories of Ridge-Poles and Cross-Beams: The categorical foundations of a Rotinese cultural design
• Chapter 7. The Kalauna House of Secrets
• Chapter 8. Maori Meeting-Houses in and Over Time
• Chapter 9. Houses and the Built Environment in Island South-East Asia: Tracing some shared themes in the uses of space
• Contributors