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A Field Guide to Underground DwellingsA Dictionary and Field Guide
Traditional anthropology with the Roving Anthropologist twist: ordinary language, myth, humor, culture, and human life seen from the ground up.
A journey through caves, pit houses, dugouts, underground cities, snow houses, shelters, myth, language, and the old human need for refuge. Where can life continue? |
About the Book
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A house is never just a house.
A Field Guide to Underground Dwellings explores the human habit of living, sheltering, hiding, praying, and surviving below ground or protected by earth. Moving through language, myth, anthropology, and actual dwellings, the book visits caves, pit houses, dugouts, underground cities, cliff dwellings, turf houses, snow houses, tunnels, shelters, and other earth-protected homes. This is not a technical architecture book. It is a field guide to human ingenuity. |
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The Roving Anthropologist Method
This book begins with ordinary words — cave, cellar, bunker, tunnel, shelter, home — and follows them underground into culture, climate, danger, memory, myth, and actual human dwellings around the world. The method is simple: Begin with language. Dig beneath the surface. Walk into actual human life. Come back seeing more. |
Inside the Book
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Part One
A Dictionary of Life Below Ground Words such as cave, cellar, bunker, tunnel, earth, shelter, darkness, fire, smoke, home, memory, and return open into hidden human worlds. |
Part Two
A Bit of Archaeology: Going Underground with Rilke A descent into Orpheus, Persephone, Rilke, myth, loss, return, and the symbolic meaning of going underground. |
Part Three
A Field Guide to Underground Homes A journey through actual underground and earth-protected dwellings around the world. |
Dwellings in the Field Guide
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Matmata Underground Courtyard Homes — Tunisia
Derinkuyu Underground City — Turkey Cappadocian Cave Settlements and Monasteries — Turkey Yaodong Cave Dwellings — China The Sassi di Matera — Italy Coober Pedy Dugouts — Australia Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings — United States Skara Brae — Scotland |
Icelandic Turf Houses — Iceland
Great Plains Dugouts and Sod Houses — North America Indigenous Pit Houses — North America Jōmon Pit Dwellings — Japan Early Coastal Alaska Semi-Subterranean Houses — Alaska Inuit Snow Houses — Arctic Regions Cu Chi Tunnels — Vietnam Cold War and Storm Shelters — Modern Emergency Refuge |
A Few Lines from the Book
A cellar is a relationship with winter.
A bunker is fear with shelves.
A courtyard is sky inside earth.
A dwelling is never just a structure. It is a cultural sentence.
Sometimes wisdom goes down.
A bunker is fear with shelves.
A courtyard is sky inside earth.
A dwelling is never just a structure. It is a cultural sentence.
Sometimes wisdom goes down.
A Field Guide to Underground Dwellings
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A Field Guide to Underground Dwellings
A Dictionary and Field Guide
Available now.
A Field Guide to Underground Dwellings
A Dictionary and Field Guide
Available now.
