Download or read book Tribal Housing Issues written by Robin D. Tribhuwan and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every human society has developed certain cultural norms, customs, traditions and rituals in planning and constructing a house. It is a tendency of the owner of the house to complete these cultural formalities so as to find peace (shanti) in the new vastu or home. The Hindu society has made a provision of the science of building a house called vastu shastra . Tribals too have cultural norms, taboos, meaningful customs, traditions and rituals associated with house construction. Every social action in the context of house building ritual in symbolic and meaningful to the tribals. Their housing designs and settlement patterns may have been evolved to suit their ecological and environment needs. There could be some scientific base behind the creation of house architecture, designs and settlement patterns.