Spirit structures of Papua New Guinea : art and architecture in the Kaiaimunucene / Michael Hirschbichler ; part I translated from German by Melanie Janet Sindelar.
"This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures, with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea th...
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| Other title: | Mythische Konstruktionen. English |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | Routledge research in architecture.
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| Summary: | "This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures, with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that exists to date. The book's aim is twofold: First, it aims to investigate the spirit structures and their associated cultural cosmos in detail. For this purpose, a representative selection of traditional buildings and art works from different regions of Papua New Guinea is documented and analyzed, and theories for their understanding are formulated. In this course, the author develops a spatial theory of anthropological concepts - such as myths, signs, persons, and rituals. Secondly, this analysis is then situated in the broader context of the Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. Transforming the historical spirit structures into models for future-oriented cultural imagination, consequences for contemporary productions of space and ways of worldmaking in light of existential challenges are traced. The book thus offers more-than-human and more-than-secular concepts for building and art and worldmaking that are of critical importance in the ongoing Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, anthropology, cultural studies, environmental humanities and adjacent disciplines"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003384762 1003384765 9781040035597 1040035590 9781040035504 1040035507 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2024). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Michael Hirschbichler works across the disciplines of art, architecture, and anthropology. He is the director of Atelier Hirschbichler and a researcher at TU Delft. His work focuses on spatial constructions in the Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene, with a particular emphasis on the interrelationship between their material and immaterial aspects (narratives, memories, ideologies, beliefs), between facts and cultural fictions. Michael Hirschbichler studied at ETH Zurich and Humboldt UniversittĖ zu Berlin and completed his doctoral dissertation on "Mythical Constructions" at Berlin University of the Arts. He was a lecturer at ETH Zurich, avisiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and director of the Architecture Program at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize by the German Academy Villa Massimo. |