The man and his house.
Parentheses| N° d'inventaire | 23490 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 304 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782863643747 |
A pioneering and essential figure in French geography, Pierre Deffontaines published this major text in 1972, shortly before his death.
The geographer then has in his luggage as an "active traveler" countless readings, field notebooks and live drawings; enough to abundantly nourish several regional monographs but, above all, to give substance to this ambitious volume on the diversity of men through the prism of their "essential mark": the house.
Whether made of branches or stone, underground or dominant, bourgeois or agrarian, grouped or dispersed... the dwellings of the five continents are listed here with a view to completeness and methodical description. All specific and adapted to their environment, they appear in the pen of this enthusiast as structures whose framework meets the physical, economic and symbolic requirements of their occupants.
Underpinned by the awareness of a progressive standardization of habitat and the announced end of traditional ways of life, this work of synthesis is understood as an undertaking to collect the main human imprints before a secular world disappears.
A pioneering and essential figure in French geography, Pierre Deffontaines published this major text in 1972, shortly before his death.
The geographer then has in his luggage as an "active traveler" countless readings, field notebooks and live drawings; enough to abundantly nourish several regional monographs but, above all, to give substance to this ambitious volume on the diversity of men through the prism of their "essential mark": the house.
Whether made of branches or stone, underground or dominant, bourgeois or agrarian, grouped or dispersed... the dwellings of the five continents are listed here with a view to completeness and methodical description. All specific and adapted to their environment, they appear in the pen of this enthusiast as structures whose framework meets the physical, economic and symbolic requirements of their occupants.
Underpinned by the awareness of a progressive standardization of habitat and the announced end of traditional ways of life, this work of synthesis is understood as an undertaking to collect the main human imprints before a secular world disappears.