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  title info:
    title: Architecture, ritual and cosmology in China
    sub title: the buildings of the order of the Dong
  name:
    name part: Li, Xuemei
    name part: (Writer on architecture)
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Drawing on the author's extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dong's buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dong's cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the architecture, and the symbolic meanings. It examines how the buildings and techniques of the Dong are ordered and influenced by the local culture and context. The timber bridges and drum towers are the Dong's most prominent architectural monuments. Usually built elaborately with multiple roofs, these bridges and drum towers were designed and maintained by the local carpenters who also built the village suspended houses, in an oral tradition carried down from father to son or to apprentice. They were funded entirely by the local people, and the bridges tend to be built in places without great pressure of traffic or another bridge already existing close by. Why does such great expense go into the Dong's buildings with elaboration? How were they built? And what do they mean to their users and builders? This book is an anthropological study on the Dong's architecture and technique, and it aims to contribute a discourse on the interdisciplinary research area. It is suitable for graduate and postgraduate readers.
  note: Xuemei Li.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-266) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Dong
  subject:
    topic: Ethnic architecture
    geographic: China, Southwest
  subject:
    topic: Vernacular architecture
    geographic: China, Southwest
  subject:
    topic: Architecture and cosmology
    geographic: China, Southwest
  subject:
    topic: Symbolism in architecture
    geographic: China, Southwest
  classification: NA1546.S66 L52 2023
  classification: 720.951/3
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221118
    record change date: 20230915141426.0
    record identifier: in00004742351