BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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For the contents of the whole Research Series see CONTENTS: English, German, French
at the moment are (Feb. 96):
BFZS
Nold Egenter: Bauform als Zeichen und Symbol - Nichtdomestikales Bauen im japanischen Volkskult. Eine bauethnologische Untersuchung dokumentiert an 100 Dörfern Zentraljapans. ETH Zürich, Organisationsstelle für Ausstellungen, 1980 Zürich ISBN 3.85676-013-1 (CHF 30.- / US$ 25.- s'mail incl.)
SSRB
Nold Egenter: Sacred Symbols of Reed and Bamboo. Annually built cult torches as spatial signs and symbols. A study of the building traditions of the ujigami Shinto rituals as practiced around the town of Omihachiman in Japan.
* (German:Göttersitze aus Schilf und Bambus. Jährlich gebaute Kultfackeln als Male, Zeichen und Symbole. Eine bauethnologische Untersuchung der ujigami-Rituale des Volksshinto um die Stadt Omihachiman, Japan.)
ISBN 3-261-04821-2, Swiss Asian Studies Monographs vol. 4 Bern 1982 (CHF 40.-/ US $ 35,-s'mail incl.)
AA1
Nold Egenter: The present Relevance of the Primitive in Architecture. Architectural Anthropology - Research Series vol. 1: 216 p. Illustr. Paperback. Three languages (English, German, French)
* (German: Die Aktualität des Primitiven in der Architektur)
* [Français: L'actualité du Primitif dans l 'Architecture]
ISBN: 3-905451-01-8 / Structura Mundi, Lausanne 1992
(CHF 40.- / 34.-US$ s'mail incl.)
For contents see English, German, French
For Cover-Text see: English, German, French
SSA
Nold Egenter: Semantic and Symbolic Architecture. An architectural-ethnological survey into 100 villages of central Japan. 250 p., over 1000 ill., ISBN: 3-905451-02-6 / Structura Mundi, Lausanne, 1995
(CHF 80.- / 67.-US$ s'mail incl.)
Contents: This book has pluridisciplinary implications: Architecture and urbanism, Anthropology of Space (English, German), Art ( English, German), Religion, Shinto, Japanology ( English), Habitat Research, Ethnology (English, German)
AA2
Nold Egenter: Architectural Anthropology - Research Series vol. 2: Foundations for Anthropological Research into Architecture. (German: Grundlagen zur anthropologischen Architekturforschung)
[Français: Fondements pour la Recherche Anthropologique en Architecture]
ISBN: 3-905451-03-4 / Structura Mundi, Lausanne 1996
(CHF 50.- / 42.- US$ s'mail incl.)
For contents see Covertext (English, German, French)
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