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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... Buildings and Houses 225 Index 9 Rooms and Spaces of Houses and Buildings 229 Index 10 Components of Buildings 230 Index 11 Materials of Construction 239 Index 12 Historic Building Hardware, Decorative Fittings and Finishes 241 Index 13 ...
... buildings and properties, and particularly the demanding Historic American Buildings Survey, in which measured drawings of the details of construction of a building are the goal. In this, the students have often been the teachers. This ...
... building (refer to Topical Index 10). Our justification is that there is no other available unified source for this information. The English translations of some of these terms may be difficult to understand. A number of French ...
... buildings (sablière basse, groundsill) and historic landscape terms (commune, open-field agriculture) are absent ... building in Vincennes, Ind. Examples of French colonial frontier vernacular architecture also exist at such northern ...
... building contracts and, to a lesser extent, acts of sale, land surveys, and inventories, a specialized descriptive architectural argot was employed. It is not only that some of this vocabulary was nonstandard, but also that it dealt ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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