Indigenous Architecture In India

Indigenous Architecture In India

Author: Gauri Bharat

ISBN: 978-1032934075

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Book Overview

This volume focuses on socio- spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. The chapters deal with different ideas and definitions of indigeneity, while also addressing the complex equations between the production and perception of built forms, indigenous technologies, on the one hand, and social, environmental and political contexts, questions of aesthetics, identity, and self-representation on the other. From Adivasi art and sacred sites to craft villages and nomadic pastoralists in western India, from indigenous bangle makers in urban north India to terracotta crafts people on the south, each chapter focuses on different communities and the contours of their contemporary lifeworlds. The contributions actively attempt to foreground the logic and perspectives of the communities themselves as the epistemological centre of the architectural and material discourses on indigeneity. This book will be useful for students, teachers, and researchers of architecture, urban design, urban studies, urban development and planning, anthropology, sociology, and museum studies. It will also be of interest to urban planners and designers, policy planners, local government authorities, and professionals engaged in the discipline.

Browse this title within our Arts, Literature and Humanities collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 214 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-1032934075.

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Book Specifications & Quick Facts

Reading Level
General / Adult
Language & Format
English • Images in this review
ISBN Reference
978-1032934075
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
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What is this book about?

This volume focuses on socio- spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. The chapters deal with different ideas and definitions of indigeneity, while...

Who should read this book?

Recommended for readers who enjoy Arts, Literature and Humanities and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Gauri Bharat.

Why Readers Pick This Edition

  • If you’re interested in architecture beyond drawings and buildings, this book will deeply resonate with you. It brings indigenous communities in India to the center of architectural thinking, showing how space, culture, craft, ecology, and everyday life are inseparable. Richly researched and conceptually strong, it works as both a premium academic reference and an eye-opening read. You’ll gain fresh perspectives on design, identity, and sustainability rooted in lived realities rather than abstract theory.
  • Published by Taylor & Francis.
  • Language: English.
  • Page count: 214.

Catalog Description

This volume focuses on socio- spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. The chapters deal with different ideas and definitions of indigeneity, while also addressing the complex equations between the production and perception of built forms, indigenous technologies, on the one hand, and social, environmental and political contexts, questions of aesthetics, identity, and self-representation on the other. From Adivasi art and sacred sites to craft villages and nomadic pastoralists in western India, from indigenous bangle makers in urban north India...

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