Traditional Vernacular Architecture of Kumaon: The Case of the Hill Towns of Munsiyari, Uttarakhand

Munsiyari is a region located at an altitude of 2,200 meters in the hilly state of Uttarakhand, India. The eponymous town is surrounded by twenty-two villages mostly inhabited by Bhotiya tribes, who once formed a community that traded with those crossing from India to Tibet, though this trade came...

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Autores principales:	Neelima Yadav, Navanil Chattopadhyay
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Publicado:	INTBAU Spain 2021
Materias:	Cultural Heritage Kumaoni Architecture Traditional Knowledge Systems Barpatiya Tribes Urban Patterns Architecture NA1-9428 Building construction TH1-9745
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b1904182595047c0ba336cc40f00544d2021-11-15T21:31:45ZTraditional Vernacular Architecture of Kumaon: The Case of the Hill Towns of Munsiyari, Uttarakhand2660-58212660-583Xhttps://doaj.org/article/b1904182595047c0ba336cc40f00544d2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.traditionalarchitecturejournal.com/index.php/home/article/view/523https://doaj.org/toc/2660-5821https://doaj.org/toc/2660-583X Munsiyari is a region located at an altitude of 2,200 meters in the hilly state of Uttarakhand, India. The eponymous town is surrounded by twenty-two villages mostly inhabited by Bhotiya tribes, who once formed a community that traded with those crossing from India to Tibet, though this trade came to an abrupt end with the 1962 Sino-Indian war. Owing to the region’s prosperity, the villages exhibit a very interesting typology of hill architecture. This architectural identity is also a manifestation of a geographical and cultural response to a difficult terrain. Our study was carried out as part of the preparation of a dossier for inventorying the Kailash sacred landscape with the aim of documenting the present state of the traditional vernacular heritage of the selected indigenous community for the UNESCO nomination of the wider region. That thorough documentation process was used as a means of analyzing local vernacular heritage and its current situation, and with a view to offsetting the rapid transformation of the past two decades. Neelima YadavNavanil ChattopadhyayINTBAU SpainarticleCultural HeritageKumaoni ArchitectureTraditional Knowledge SystemsBarpatiya TribesUrban PatternsArchitectureNA1-9428Building constructionTH1-9745ENESJournal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, Iss 2 (2021)
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description	Munsiyari is a region located at an altitude of 2,200 meters in the hilly state of Uttarakhand, India. The eponymous town is surrounded by twenty-two villages mostly inhabited by Bhotiya tribes, who once formed a community that traded with those crossing from India to Tibet, though this trade came to an abrupt end with the 1962 Sino-Indian war. Owing to the region’s prosperity, the villages exhibit a very interesting typology of hill architecture. This architectural identity is also a manifestation of a geographical and cultural response to a difficult terrain. Our study was carried out as part of the preparation of a dossier for inventorying the Kailash sacred landscape with the aim of documenting the present state of the traditional vernacular heritage of the selected indigenous community for the UNESCO nomination of the wider region. That thorough documentation process was used as a means of analyzing local vernacular heritage and its current situation, and with a view to offsetting the rapid transformation of the past two decades.
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title	Traditional Vernacular Architecture of Kumaon: The Case of the Hill Towns of Munsiyari, Uttarakhand
title_short	Traditional Vernacular Architecture of Kumaon: The Case of the Hill Towns of Munsiyari, Uttarakhand
title_full	Traditional Vernacular Architecture of Kumaon: The Case of the Hill Towns of Munsiyari, Uttarakhand
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Traditional Vernacular Architecture of Kumaon: The Case of the Hill Towns of Munsiyari, Uttarakhand

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