The Vanishing Traces: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
by Iftekhar Ahmed
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine.
- ISBN 10
- 974480100X
- ISBN 13
- 9789744801005
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About This Item
Bangkok: White Lotus Co Ltd. 2013. Trade paperback. Fine.. 96 p., illustrations, bibliography. . This book 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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- Bookseller
- Masalai Press (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0029603
- Title
- The Vanishing Traces: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- Author
- Iftekhar Ahmed
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 974480100X
- ISBN 13
- 9789744801005
- Publisher
- White Lotus Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Bangkok
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 96 p., illustrations, bibliography., Chittagong Hills, Bangladesh-Architecture, Bangladesh-Vernacular Architecture
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