Vanishing Traces, The: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
by Ahmed, Iftekhar
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- 974480100X
- ISBN 13
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Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2013. Paperback. Very Good/no dj. 1.00. Ahmed, Iftekhar. is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture. The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. It is the home of a number of Tibeto-Burman tribal groups, quite different from the mainstream Bangladeshi population. The vernacular housing of these communities is also unique and adapted sustainably to the hilly context, but for a variety of reasons is undergoing transformation, particularly the influence of the housing patterns of the mainstream population of the floodplains. The Chittagong Hill Tract housing styles and techniques are a valuable cultural resource; it is important to have a record of them before they vanish. This book brings together a compilation of the housing patterns of eleven of the main ethnic groups, including extensive photographs and drawings. A key question regarding the future uncertainty of the vernacular housing of these communities is ultimately posed: Will this unique and valuable cultural resource be eventually subsumed within the broader social, cultural and economic transformations that are not only local, but global?
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- Title
- Vanishing Traces, The: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- Author
- Ahmed, Iftekhar
- Illustrator
- Ahmed, Iftekhar
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- no dj
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- ISBN 10
- 974480100X
- ISBN 13
- 9789744801005
- Publisher
- White Lotus Press
- Place of Publication
- Bangkok
- Date Published
- 2013
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- Vanishing Traces, The: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
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- 1.00
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