Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China

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Akha, 90 al laox (the big songs). See polyphonic chorus allegorical architecture, 10, 12, 23, 40, 66, 73, 108, 128, 130, 166, 181–182 allegory, 2, 12, 38, 40, 42, 96, 111, 135, 165, 181–182 ancestor: female, 75, 91, 93; male, 75, 93–95, 123, 134 animal trap, 181 animation, 2, 9, 38, 89, 113, 123, 127–128, 165, 182 anthropomorphism, 38, 40–41, 53. See also zoomorphism antiphony, 30, 107, 130 apparatus, 180–181 architectonics, 8–11, 27, 37, 45, 108–109 architectural vision, 89–91, 122 artifice, 9, 11–12, 97, 101, 111, 122, 128 assimilation, 144, 168–169 Austronesian, 10, 40, 91, 105, 107, 144 authenticity, 108, 126, 130–131, 136–137, 167–168, 175–178 Bai, 157 baigu (telling the ancient stories), 130 Baiyue, 15, 22 Banpo, 155, 157, 159 Baxie, 51, 54, 122 Benjamin, Walter, 165, 181 Bentham, Jeremy, 180–181 Bourdieu, Pierre, 8 bronze drum, 21–22, 105, 147, 152 buffalo horns, 94–95, 97, 147–148, 163 building type, 10–12, 102, 149, 172 built fabric, 4, 9, 38, 173 Bulang, 91 Buyi, 18, 141–142 camouflage, 172 Cangyuan, 145 chaoju (nest dwelling), 145 Chen family in Ma’an, 175, 177 Chengyang bridge, 81, 83, 136–137, 175–177 Chi Ya, 107 chicken bone divination, 75 chicken divination, 21 China fir (fir tree), 26–27, 90–93, 96, 133 clan, 20, 22, 24–25, 35, 40, 93–95, 123, 127, 131, 157 Clifford, James, 168, 181 cognition, 76, 135 215 Index 216 _| I N D E X coil, 43, 75–76, 87, 97, 109, 111, 128. See also dragon collective figure, 182 Congjiang, 17, 19, 21–22, 46–47, 49, 55, 63, 71, 117, 123, 127–129, 151, 170, 173 constitution of a human person, 12 cosmos and cosmological beliefs, 3–4, 7–9, 11, 89–90, 107, 126, 132, 135, 146, 163 courtship, 35, 130 cowrie-shell container, 96, 147 cultural affinities, 23, 142 cultural authenticity, 175 cultural fabrication, 108, 177 cultural reconstruction, 175 cultural relics, 170 cultural renewal, 11–12, 108, 132, 135, 144, 149, 167–168, 170, 172–174 cultural repertoire, 171 Cultural Revolution, 5, 131, 136, 170–171, 180 customary law, 25–26, 123, 125–127 Dai, 18, 61, 67–68, 91, 141–142, 144, 146–147, 151, 157–158, 160–161, 165, 174 Dian Lake, 97 diaojiaolou, 141–142 didacticism, 2, 9, 130, 181 Dong epic, 177 Dong ethnicity, 168, 170, 172 Dong patriarchy, 25, 93 Dong scholars, 20, 102, 169–171, 177 dougong (eave bracket set), 54, 104–105, 113, 117 dragon, 55, 57, 78–79, 81, 97, 109 drum tower, 10, 12, 16, 24–28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 40, 43, 46–47, 49, 51–52, 54–55, 60–61, 63, 72–76, 83, 87, 89–97, 101–105, 107–109, 111, 113–117, 119–120, 122–123, 125–137, 147–148, 153, 158, 167, 170–172, 175–178 drum tower funeral, 129 drum tower square, 47, 49, 51–52, 60, 75, 113, 115, 126, 128, 131–132, 134, 167 duoye, 75, 87–88, 128, 134, 176 Durand, Jacques-Nicolas-Louis, 3 economy and efficiency, 3, 40 efficiency and efficacy, 5 egalitarian, 157, 161, 165 Eisenman, Peter, 4 empowerment, 12, 23, 25, 40–41, 49, 74, 95, 126, 136–137, 180 entertaining tourists, 88, 175–176 ethnicity, 10–12, 14, 16–17, 22, 37, 39–40, 55, 61, 104, 126, 142–144, 147, 157, 163, 166, 168–170, 172, 174–175, 177 ethnocentrism, 13–14 ethnographer, 6, 174 ethnographic findings and research, 2, 8, 15, 20, 108, 169, 174 ethnographic pastoral, 168 ethnography, 8, 11 Evans, Robin, 165 exoticism, 13–14 fabrications, 6, 11–14, 16, 23, 39, 90, 93, 108, 133–134, 168, 170, 172, 177 feather flowers, 163, 176 fengshui (Daoist fengshui), 23, 30, 39–40, 57, 60, 78–81, 83, 88 Fernandez, James, 7–8 figurative meanings, 10, 12, 38, 76, 78, 81, 88, 139 fire pit, 26, 33, 68, 74–75, 81, 91, 93–94, 97, 107, 113, 115, 119–120, 122, 130– 131, 134–137, 145, 155, 158–163, 171–172, 175 folk songs, 15, 20–21, 26, 35, 65, 67, 107, 130 form: as formal analysis, 9, 11; as formal language, 4; as formal problem, 3–4, 6; as formal structure, 38, 45, 49, 55, 70–71, 75–76, 80, 114, 135, 149, 157 Foucault, Michel, 113, 180 front hall and back room, 154–155, 157 ganlan, 30, 139, 141–142 Gell...