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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... construction of a building are the goal. In this, the students have often been the teachers. This lexicon is offered as an aid to those involved in French-, Spanish-, and English-language descriptions of the cultural landscapes of ...
... construction. Many of these early notes were rapidly jotted down, abstracted out of more or less obscure sources, both primary and secondary. Because the original purpose of this collection never extended to its publication, sources ...
... construction technology and translated many of the entries. He also typed sections of the manuscript. In an attempt to make this lexicon as representative of Creole and Cajun usage as possible, we investigated and compared contemporary ...
... construction now unfamiliar to builders and carpenters. Even scholars such as architectural historians, archaeologists, and ethnologists are often unversed in it. Modern Cajun and Creole carpenters and builders—those who would normally ...
... construction were often omitted, or they were sketched in superficially. Builders' contracts may specify details of decoration and construction, but not infrequently information as essential as the floorplan is left out. This tendency ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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