Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China

Contents

Preface ix A Note on Names and Terms xiii PROLOGUE  Form and Meaning  Legibility and Instrumental Form  1 _| ARCHITECTONIC FABRICATIONS OF MINORITIES  The Dong and Others Historical and Political Fabrications  An Architecture-Based Culture  2 _| MYTH AND RITUALISTIC POSTURES  The Workings of the Settlement Myth and Settlement  Settlement Pattern  Settlement Made Legible  Figurative Imagining  3 _| CHORAL SYMBOLIZATION  The Social Life of Public Structures From Village Heart to Hearth  Naming and Tacit Analogies  Contents Type and Artifice  Choral Symbolization  Politics and Poetics  4 _| TYPE, MYTH, AND HETEROGENEITY  Pile-Built Dwellings Type and Reason  Type and Myth  Type and Formal Structure  Type and Inhabitation  Type and Heterogeneity  5 _| OUT OF TIME  Ahistorical Architecture and Cultural Renewal An Accidental Drive for Ethnicity  Foreign Forms, Old Shells, New Uses  EPILOGUE  Notes  Bibliography  Index  viii _| C O N T E N T S ...