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The politics of house shape: round vs rectilinear domestic structures in Déla compounds, northern Cameroon

  • Autores: Diane LYONS
  • Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 70, Nº 268, 1996, págs. 351-367
  • Idioma: inglés
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  • Resumen
    • Building floor plans are frequently recovered by archaologists. A common first sorting of the shapes of small domestic buildings is between round houses and rectangular houses. What do these differences mean? Why do social groups change their building form from one to the other? An ethnoarchaeological study from northern Cameroon illustrates how four ethnic groups in a single community use building shape to blur or define group boundaries for political self-interests.


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