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Article	AINUN IS A HERITAGE VILLAGE IN THE SOUTH OF JORDAN. ANTHROPOLOGICAL ‑ ARCHITECTURAL STUDY
Authors	Mohannad Tarrad, Abdel-Aziz Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, Al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan
Abstract	The present anthropological architectural field study is conducted in Ainun village, located in Karak governorate in the south of Jordan. It digs through the natural and historical environment of the site, the village apellation, its social and urban history, the kinship system, dwellings’ ownership, living style, the cultural format and the village’s traditional architecture and its phases. This study aims at highlighting the traditional cultural and architectural heritage of the village. The village’s location was chosen for study due to its varied topography, its coherent traditional architecture and its richness of valleys, water springs, plains and pastures. Moreover; its implication for the rural heritage and the experience of its inception by a pastoral community passing the process of stability, shifting from living in caves and tents to living in fixed houses built of stones and mud. The study was based on methodologies of architectural and anthropological field researches focusing on the social, dynastic and urban history of the village. The sources of written history and local documents were relied on, in line with the oral history by interviewing the elderly as an essential source of information, as well as being acquainted with the villagers’ land registry of their properties and the records of the Shari'a courts, which list the names of the first founders of the village and the proportion of their possessions of land and dwellings. Also, heritage buildings have been officially registered and demarked. The study will examine the meaning of the village’s name “Ainun”, the natural and historical environment of the village, its social, dynastic and urban history, the beginnings of stability in its location, the royal kinship, its traditional architecture’s styles and phases, as well as the material and non-material culture and the traditional dwellings’ holdings. The study includes photographs, maps and architectural drawings.
Keywords:	Ainun a Jordanian village, traditional dwellings, material culture, culture, society and anthropology in Jordan
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For citation	Mohannad Tarrad, Abdel-Aziz Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz Ainun is a Heritage Village in the South of Jordan. Anthropological Architectural Study. Architecture and Modern Information Technologies, 2018, no. 3(44), pp. 88-109. Available at: http://marhi.ru/eng/AMIT/2018/3kvart18/05_mohannad_abdel/index.php

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