A Creole Lexicon : Architecture, Landscape, People /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Edwards, Jay Dearborn
Otros Autores: Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton, Nicolas, 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vernacular architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > Regional.
Creoles > Culture materielle > Louisiane > Terminologie.
Architecture vernaculaire > Louisiane > Terminologie.
Creoles > Material culture > Louisiana > Terminology.
Vernacular architecture > Louisiana > Terminology.
Louisiana.
Terminology.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 meanin.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780807138328

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