A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, PeopleLSU Press, 2004 - 304 pagina's Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultural landscapes. This creolized language -- a unique combination of localisms and words borrowed from French, Spanish, English, Indian, and Caribbean sources -- developed to suit the multiethnic needs of settlers, planters, explorers, builders, surveyors, and government officials. Today, this historic vernacular is often opaque to historians, architects, attorneys, geographers, scholars, and the general public who need to understand its meanings. With A Creole Lexicon, Jay Edwards and Nicolas Kariouk provide a highly organized resource for its recovery. Here are definitions for thousands of previously lost or misapplied terms, including watercraft and land vehicles, furniture, housetypes unique to Louisiana, people, and social categories. |
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... . Vèvès en bohío, Dominican Republic 104. West Indies Raised Cottage, Spanish Custom House, New Orleans, Louisiana vèvè West Indian raised cottage xiii Recto Running Head Preface S its sands pread museums, xii VersoIllustrationsRunning ...
... Indies and then the Louisiana territory by the casting together on vast and unfamiliar ground of small groups of people from many diverse backgrounds and cultures. Examples of lexical creolization are numerous and endlessly fascinating ...
... Indies, and the circum-Caribbean. In this sense, Creole also includes certain foundational terms of coastal West African provenance that would have been understood by merchants and seamen in the Americas. For convenience, all distinctly ...
... Indies. Each group of settlers brought different varieties of French vocabulary and French farming and building traditions, and each group had both specialists and “jacks of all trade.” It is not uncommon to find four or five synonyms ...
... Indies and Louisiana: a free person of color. See carta de libertad, code noir, gens de couleur libres, racial categories, recopilación de leyes... de las Indias. African House (En). A service building at Melrose (earlier Yucca) ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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