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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... tools and furnishings, but also fences, boats, barns, mills, and houses, with their often intricately assembled wooden parts. The secrets of their methods of fabrication are now largely forgotten. Although a diminishing abundance of ...
... tools and implements. His knowledge of the more technical aspects of spoken Cajun expanded our understanding of how it was used in the past. Cajun culture specialist, folklorist, and native speaker Ray Brassieur contributed useful ...
... tool or other artifact. The long-handled hand tamperor ram, for example, was known as dame, enfonceur, étampe, hie, and pilon—all French terms. Readers will discover many synonyms drawn from separate geocultural roots. Local isolation ...
... Tool: a nose auger, one with a straight flat rather than a spiral blade. These were used to bore holes through timbers (Sand & Koch 1975:41; Diderot 1762–72: Charpenterie, planche XLIX, fig. 23). They differed from the vrille (hand ...
... tools, and dishes (Reed 1931:2; Warner 1998:96). An aromatic herb called vétiver was often inserted into the armoire in order to perfume the contents and preserve them from insects. Until the. 7. Armoire. acadienne. late 19th cent., fabric ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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