House, culture and development

The second level deals with the values and norms related to the house and its use; the normative 'ideal' house. Besides these cognitive and normative levels, a third level concerns the social composition of the households living in the house. Besides studies of the house as a micro-cosmos,...

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Published in:Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde land- en volkenkunde, 1988, Vol.144 (1), p.114-131
Main Authors: Nas, Peter J.M, Prins, Wil J.M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African culture
Anthropology
Architecture
Cities
Construction materials
Culture
Development anthropology
Economic development
Household composition
Houses
Housing
Normativity
Residential buildings
Rooms
Social studies
Society
Socio-economic development
Sociology
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Summary:The second level deals with the values and norms related to the house and its use; the normative 'ideal' house. Besides these cognitive and normative levels, a third level concerns the social composition of the households living in the house. Besides studies of the house as a micro-cosmos, various types of descriptions of symbolic concordance between local, regional or universal symbolic systems can 118 P.J.M. Nas and W. J. M. Prins be found. [...]of the failure of the low-cost housing approach, a new type of housing policy gradually developed, in which the house itself was no longer the central issue. [...]the difference in approach seems to correspond with the critical turn in the housing trend caused by the incorporation of societies into the market and money economy.
ISSN:0006-2294
2213-4379
0006-2294
DOI:10.1163/22134379-90003309