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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... slaves, the color “red” included light brown, tan, and even blond, and this expanded sense persisted into Caribbean African-American English vernacular. Even today, Caucasians are often called “red men” by West Indian Creoles. Thus, in ...
... slave transportation. In both West Africa and America, French and other European languages were creolized in trading posts and other colonial settings—particularly on plantations. There, native speakers of West African languages ...
... slaves (Comanche, Apache, Witchita), salt, bow wood (bois d'arc), and hard currency throughout the French colonial period. An architectural view of the fort appears on the undated Joseph Urrutia map of 1767 archived in the British ...
... slaves, assault and battery, treason, and murder. Civil cases concerned debt, probate succession, disputed property, and slave emancipation, and sometimes involved large sums of money. Cases came from throughout Greater Louisiana, not ...
... slaves owned by a planter, a businessman, or the crown. atraveseña (SpCn, f). Vulg. L transversare, Sp través, across. 1) Northern Mexico: a folk name for lathing strips, often made of carrizo and used in roofing (Brown 1999:511). See ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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