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A Creole lexicon : architecture, landscape, people / Jay Dearborn Edwards and Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton ; illustrations by William Brockway, Charles Funderburk, Mary Lee Eggart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Jay Dearborn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vernacular architecture--Louisiana--Terminology.
- Vernacular architecture.
- Creoles--Material culture--Louisiana--Terminology.
- Creoles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface (Edwards and Kariouk); Acknowledgments; Introduction (Edwards with Kariouk); How to Use This Lexicon; Abbreviations; Creole Lexicon; Topical Indexes; Appendix: A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8071-3832-0
- OCLC:
- 663111473
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