Book Description
Surveys the types of homes found in twenty American small towns, and discusses house plans, features, and structural forms
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780820310749
Surveys the types of homes found in twenty American small towns, and discusses house plans, features, and structural forms
Author : Dean G. Lampros
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1421448408
"This work uses the history of American funeral homes to reimagine the beginnings of our decentralized consumer landscape"--
Author : Howard W. Marshall
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816513109
Stonemasons from the Alpine valleys of northwestern Italy shaped the architectural face of Paradise Valley in northern Nevada in the 1860s and 1870s. Drawing on their own distinctive skills, they constructed the constellation of granite and sandstone buildings that are the region's most visible landmarks. Marshall's analysis of this architectural legacy, illustrated with 229 photographs and 70 line drawings, is not only a valuable resource for scholars in vernacular architecture, folklore, and cultural geography, but also a verbal and visual treat for all who love the American West.
Author : Andrew R. L. Cayton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1918 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 2006-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253003490
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Author : David L. Ames
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
Author : James S. Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135860351
Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author as it is about purported geographical reality. The issue becomes not scientific truth as the end but the interpretation of cultural constructions as the means. Discussing authorial power, discourses of the other, texts and textuality, landscape metaphor, the sites of power-knowledge relations and notions of community and the sense of place, the authors explore the ways in which a more fluid and sensitive geographer's art can help us make sense of ourselves and the landscapes and places we inhabit and think about.
Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0877455430
Popular culture, Francaviglia looks sympathetically but realistically at the ways in which Main Street's image developed and persists. He reaffirms that life can imitate art, that the cherished icons surrounding Main Street have become the substance of popular culture. Ultimately, his book is about the material culture that architects, town developers, and image makers have left us as their legacy. Seen through the lives of the visionaries who created them in their.
Author : Kimberly R. Sebold
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Cape May County (N.J.)
ISBN :
Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190840633
The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse chapters delve into significant themes and methods of folklore and folklife study; established expressions and activities; spheres and locations of folkloric action; and shared cultures and common identities. Beyond the longstanding arenas of academic focus developed throughout the 350-year legacy of folklore and folklife study, contributors at the forefront of the field also explore exciting new areas of attention that have emerged in the twenty-first century such as the Internet, bodylore, folklore of organizations and networks, sexual orientation, neurodiverse identities, and disability groups. Encompassing a wide range of cultural traditions in the United States, from bits of slang in private conversations to massive public demonstrations, ancient beliefs to contemporary viral memes, and a simple handshake greeting to group festivals, these chapters consider the meanings in oral, social, and material genres of dance, ritual, drama, play, speech, song, and story while drawing attention to tradition-centered communities such as the Amish and Hasidim, occupational groups and their workaday worlds, and children and other age groups. Weaving together such varied and manifest traditions, this handbook pays significant attention to the cultural diversity and changing national boundaries that have always been distinctive in the American experience, reflecting on the relative youth of the nation; global connections of customs brought by immigrants; mobility of residents and their relation to an indigenous, urbanized, and racialized population; and a varied landscape and settlement pattern. Edited by leading folklore scholar Simon J. Bronner, this handbook celebrates the extraordinary richness of the American social and cultural fabric, offering a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of American studies, but also for the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice.
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801869181
In the second volume of the acclaimed "Gas, Food, Lodging" trilogy, authors John Jakle, Keith Sculle, and Jefferson Rogers take an informative, entertaining, and comprehensive look at the history of the motel. From the introduction of roadside tent camps and motor cabins in the 1910s to the wonderfully kitschy motels of the 1950s that line older roads and today's comfortable but anonymous chains that lure drivers off the interstate, Americans and their cars have found places to stay on their travels. Motels were more than just places to sleep, however. They were the places where many Americans saw their first color television, used their first coffee maker, and walked on their first shag carpet. Illustrated with more than 230 photographs, postcards, maps, and drawings, The Motel in America details the development of the motel as a commercial enterprise, its imaginative architectural expressions, and its evolution within the place-product-packaging concept along America's highways. As an integral part of America's landscape and culture, the motel finally receives the in-depth attention it deserves.