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Bangkok: White Lotus Co Ltd. 2013. Trade paperback. Fine.. 96 p., illustrations, bibliography. . This book is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture. The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. It is the home of a number of Tibeto-Burman tribal groups, quite different from the mainstream Bangladeshi population. The vernacular housing of these communities is also unique and adapted sustainably to the hilly context, but for a variety of reasons is undergoing transformation, particularly the influence of the housing patterns of the mainstream population of the floodplains. The Chittagong Hill Tract housing styles and techniques are a valuable cultural resource; it is important to have a record of them before they vanish. This book brings together a compilation of the housing patterns of eleven of the main…
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The Vanshing Traces: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Paperback - 2013
by Iftekhar Ahmed
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- Title The Vanshing Traces: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- Author Iftekhar Ahmed
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- Edition 105 pp, illust.,
- Language ENG
- Publisher White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok
- Date 2013
- ISBN 9789744801005
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Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2013. Paperback. Very Good/no dj. 1.00. Ahmed, Iftekhar. is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture. The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. It is the home of a number of Tibeto-Burman tribal groups, quite different from the mainstream Bangladeshi population. The vernacular housing of these communities is also unique and adapted sustainably to the hilly context, but for a variety of reasons is undergoing transformation, particularly the influence of the housing patterns of the mainstream population of the floodplains. The Chittagong Hill Tract housing styles and techniques are a valuable cultural resource; it is important to have a record of them before they vanish. This book brings together a compilation of the housing patterns of eleven of the main ethnic groups,…
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