Folk Housing in Middle Virginia A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts

Name: Folk Housing in Middle Virginia A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts
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ISBN: 9780870492686

ISBN-10: 0870492683

ISBN-13: 9780870492686

Edition: 1976 (Reprint)

Authors: Henry Glassie

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In this fascinating analysis of eighteenth-century vernacular houses of Middle Virginia, Henry Glassie presents a revolutionary and carefully constructed methodology for looking at houses and interpreting from them the people who built and used them. Glassie believes that all relevant historical evidence – unwritten as well as written – must be taken into account before historical truth can be found. He in convinced that any study of man’s past must make use of nonverbal and verbal evidence, since written history – the story of man as recorded by the intellectual elite – does not tell us much about the everyday life, thoughts, and fears of the ordinary people of the past. Such people have…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Publication date: 2/23/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 10.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Henry Glassie is College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University and author of many books, including Passing the Time in Ballymenone (IUP, 1995), Turkish Traditional Art Today (IUP, 1993), The Potter's Art (IUP, 2000), and Vernacular Architecture (IUP, 2000). His books have won a host of awards and three of his works have been named among the notable books of the year by the New York Times. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.