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Moulding Minaret Makers: A Study of Apprenticeship and Spatial Cognition With Traditional Builders in Sana'a, Yemen
1999
Moulding Minaret Makers is a study of traditional building practices in Sanaca, Yemen, with a focus on a highly reputed team of craftsmen who have specialised since the early 1980's in the construction of mosque minarets. Based on thirteen months of fieldwork during which I laboured on two minaret projects, my research addresses the nature of the construction materials and methods employed; the organisation of labour and the social relations between the builders; and, most importantly, the
doi:10.25501/soas.00033823
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