Anoma Pieris: 3 books

Book cover of Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures
by Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014

Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning...
Book cover of Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

The Trouser Under the Cloth

by Anoma Pieris
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the...
Book cover of Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

An Illustrated International Survey

by Anoma Pieris
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016

Here is a lavishly illustrated descriptive survey of 48 leading indigenous cultural centers around the world (35 are from Australia and 13 from North America, Japan, Europe, and Asia). The book shows how each is a potentially transformative, politically compelling addition to the field of cultural...
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