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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.
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