Exam 2 Flashcards
Landscape
What are landscape studies?
The study of the relationship between physical environments and cultural meanings.
Landscape
What Pauls sees as the common goal of archaeologists who deal with landscape.
According to Pauls, the goal of archaeologists with landscape is the understand the environment itself and why it was used for settlement planning, hunting, farming, etc.
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What does Pauls see as the difference between space and place?
Space refers to those areas that have little meaning for the beholder, while place refers to areas that are laden with meaning and memory.
Landscape
Why does Pauls feel that it is important to seek ‘other voices’ in the future, and whose voices are those?
Because these other voices can have insights and have other techniques that benefit the analyses of sites, the culture behind them, and the artifacts as well. These other voices could be archaeologists from different countries or indigenous communities.
Landscape
What did Henry Glassie do?
Outside academia, he helped to organize the Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival and the Office of Folklife Programs, and served on the first Folk Arts panel of the National Endowment for the Arts and as a consultant for outdoor museums.
Landscape
What is Structuralism?
A method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
Landscape
What is the big deal about the Georgian mindset?
The Georgian world view in colonial buildings, as it replaces the Medieval world view. New emphasis on individualism, separation, privacy, containment.
Landscape
How did American gardens associated with elite residences often appear during the 1700s (Mark Leone’s study)?
- The elite sought/expressed power in gardens
- Modifications, such as terracing, make houses look taller.
Landscape
Why do Holtorf and Wilkins discuss memory and landscape so much?
Because landscapes can be ‘historical’. There is much history that can be found in the just the landscape alone, even if the material culture is mostly gone or destoyed.
Architecture
I-house style
Two stories high, two rooms wide and are typically one room deep
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Hall-and-Parlor House
Simple side-gabled, Hall and Parlor houses are two rooms wide and one room deep, with the central front door opening into a small vestibule or porch.
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Greek Revival
- Wide trim below cornice lines
- Entry or Full-Width porch with columns, sometimes with pediment
- Elaborate door with transom and side lights
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Italianate
- Low-pitched roof with overhanging eaves and decorate brackets
- Tall windows, often with rounded tops
- Sometimes will have cupola or tower
- Usually masonry
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Queen Anne
- Irregularly shaped roofs
- Asymmetrical facades with bay windows, overhangs, towers, etc. to avoid flat surfaces.
- Asymmetrical porches
- Textured shingles and cladding boards, sometimes in multiple colors (“painted ladies”)
- Spindle work common on porches and gable decorations
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Prairie
- Low-pitched roofs with overhanging eaves
- Emphasis on horizontal lines in construction and detailing. Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Square porches (front or side) with massive supports
- Common in Midwest
- Vernacular form (Four Square)
Architecture
How does Jones see African expressions or survivals in some American folk architecture and land use?
Since they were captives for the nighteenth century, African Americans expressed as much of their culture as they could with what material and land they had.
Architecture
Who was Thomas Day, and why is his work important in Jones’ view?
Thomas Day was a black cabnitmaker and architectual woodwork designer where no two designs of his were the same. Jones sees this as a great amount of expression.
Arrow Rock
How and why did historic preservation develop in Arrow Rock?
The restoration of the Huston Tavern in 1923 marked the beginning of historic preservation in the state of Missouri and set the stage for Arrow Rock’s future. In 1963, the entire town was designated a National Historic Landmark because of its association with Westward Expansion.
Arrow Rock
What organization was involved with the preservation of Arrow Rock?
Daughters of the American Revolution and the FAR
Arrow Rock
How does Baumann see scholars and the public interacting at Arrow Rock?
Scholars come to Arrow Rock to engage with the heiritage of the decendent community while the public interacts with what is offered there, such as shops and live shows at the theatre.