| Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions Contributor(s): Jett, Stephen C. (Author), Spencer, Virginia E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816535752 ISBN-13: 9780816535750 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Architecture | History - General |
| Series: Century Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7.2" W x 10" (1.06 lbs) 309 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Navajo Architecture may well be the most complete study to date of the folk architecture of a tribal society. Enhanced by nearly 200 photographs and drawings, the book explores the whole range of a Native American tradition as it has evolved through the present day--and is already yielding to modernization. Stephen C. Jett and Virginia E. Spencer have devoted years of fieldwork to studying the origin, evolution, and construction of Navajo buildings: not only hogans, houses, and summer dwellings, but also numerous other structures related to activities such as food preparation, hunting, sweat-bathing, and funerary observation. In addition, they have defined the geographic distribution of dwelling forms to reveal both utilization of local resources and local differences in degree of acculturation. |