03541cam a22004938i 4500 23561684 OSt 20241217064025.0 240214s2024 enk b 001 0 eng 2023057000 9781032412443 (hardback) 9781032471464 (paperback) 9781003384762 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC eng ger pcc a-pp--- NA6111.P26 H5713 2024 726.9 H571 2024 23/eng/20240403 Hirschbichler, Michael, author. Mythische Konstruktionen. English Spirit structures of Papua New Guinea : art and architecture in the Kaiaimunucene / Michael Hirschbichler. 2406 Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024. 269 pages 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Routledge research in architecture "Part I translated from German by Melanie Janet Sindelar." Includes bibliographical references and index. Mythological landscapes -- Cosmos of signs -- Social assemblages -- Ritual spaces -- Art and architecture in the Kaiaimunucene : a transformative conclusion. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Spirit houses (Religious facility) Papua New Guinea. Architecture and anthropology Papua New Guinea. Art and anthropology Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea Religion. Translation of: Hirschbichler, Michael. Mythische Konstruktionen. Sindelar, Melanie Janet, translator. Online version: Hirschbichler, Michael. Spirit structures of Papua New Guinea London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024 9781003384762 (DLC) 2023057001 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK-EN 0 7415 7415 0 0 ddc 0 0 CENTRAL TUWAIQ 2024-12-17 0 726.9 H5713 2024 1000000025327 2024-12-17 06:41:18 2024-12-17 BK-EN