An Ethnic House Form at the Western Margins of Southeast Asia
The Elusive South Asian Stilt Architecture of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2174941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dilshad Rahat Ara (0000-0002-1082-0809, Yahoo (United Kingdom), corresponding author), Mamun Rashid (0000-0001-9512-7829) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-54 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442213.2017.1400091 |
| OpenAlex | W2770698415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
Descriptive and somewhat elusive, sketchy historical notes exist for possible cultural links between ethnic people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh, South Asia, and ethnic people across the national borders in Southeast Asia. Yet, there is a curious lack of research that uses vernacular architecture or ethnic architectural building typology as a key tool to establish, or reiterate, the common proposition that CHT is the western fringe of a Southeast Asian cultural sphere. Historically, language has been a standard tool used by both colonial British rulers and a few anthropologists to consider the topic of reconstruction of cultural heritage in this geographically complex region, while architecture has played an incidental part. In this article, we examine the stilt or platform typology of vernacular architecture of the CHT as a tool to reflect on the inter-ethnic cultural position of the CHT. The chosen analytical framework hinges on the notion that architecture is constructive, in parallel to language, in establishing a heritage position. The concluding findings of the article establish CHT as a historic region with shared Southeast Asian building-cultural features, notwithstanding the possibility of correspondence to early Austronesian building heritage
Archaeology · Art · Cultural heritage · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Literature · Sociology · Typology · Vernacular · Vernacular architecture · Anthropology · Architecture · Asian Studies and History · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The living house
House form and culture.
Lexical Reconstruction and Semantic Reconstruction
Southeast Asia in World History
Inside Austronesian Houses
Origins, Ancestry and Alliance
Southeast Asia in World History
Tracking local dwelling changes in the Chittagong Hills
A Short History of Japanese Architecture
Connected Histories
The prehistory of the Austronesian-speaking peoples
Early Austronesian Social Organization
The Austronesians
Inside Austronesian Houses
Dwellings
The Assam-Burma Frontier
The Mixed Culture of the Naga Tribes
Austronesian culture history
A History of Myanmar since Ancient Times
In Search of Southeast Asia
Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition
Political Systems of Highland Burma
Origins, Ancestry and Alliance
Austronesian Architectural Heritage and the Grand Shrines at Ise, Japan
An ongoing Austronesian expansion in Island Southeast Asia
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |