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9 sie 2024 · Vernacular and indigenous practices are emerging as a foundation for architectural reimagining, informing spatial lays, the choice of materials, and building techniques while also allowing for...
Using different terms such as “folk housing” and “vernacular architecture” for constructed dwellings, folklorists examine buildings and constructions, and their surroundings, such as lawns, fences, and planted trees, in continuous development and change.
The earliest drawings in the Irish Folklife Architectural Drawing Collection are the work of Åke Campbell (1891-1957) and Albert Nilsson (later Eskerod) (1904-87), both Swedish scholars of traditional architecture and the first to systematically study the traditional Irish house in the 1930s.
25 lut 2014 · Conceptions of folk culture not only inform long-standing themes of landscape, region, and place within cultural geography but also speak to more-recent concerns with identity, habit, indigenous knowledge, diaspora, heritage, authenticity, and hybridity.
Folk culture is local, small, and tightly bound to the immediate landscape. Popular culture (also called “pop” culture) is large, dispersed, and globalizing. These two forms of culture are not separated.
7 mar 2018 · From the collection of Appalachian folk songs to multicultural tales in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, most of twentieth-century American folklore scholarship assumed rural locations as the exceptional setting for traditional culture.
1 wrz 1995 · Folk Building. Each cultural group that inhabits Texas brought its own ideas of proper forms, materials, and styles for buildings, and many cultures flow together in Texas, as the HemisFair '68 theme proclaimed.
