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Vanishing Traces, The: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
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Vanishing Traces, The: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- By: 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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| PUBLISHER: | White Lotus Press |
| ISBN: | 9789744801005 |
| AUTHOR | Ahmed, Iftekhar |
| RELEASED | 2013-01-03 |
| Bangkok, 2013 | |
| WL CODE | E22683 |
| SIZE | 105 pp., illus, 150 x 210 mm. |
| BOOK WEIGHT | 0.195 Kg |
| PACKING WEIGHT | 0.200 Kg |
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