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Title: | Preliminary report on the houses in East Africa |
Author: | Suzuki, Takako |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Kyoto University African Studies |
Volume: | 6 |
Pages: | 53-137 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Uganda Tanzania |
Subject: | dwellings |
Abstract: | A detailed architectural investigation of form; and structures of houses as spread across different hunting-gathering, cattle raising, and agricultural tribesmen in Uganda and Tanzania. Besides a description of the different types of houses, a classification is made of the houses according to shape and structure, followed by a discussion of the structure and characteristics of each type, the development of house structure, the relationship between tribes and houses, the functional composition of a home settlement, etc. Notes, figures, which illustrate the house structures, photo's, tables, ref. |