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Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes (review)

Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes... Journal of American Folklore123(2010) sort of shorthand for speeding up the communication between writer and reader" (p. 134). Similarly, folklorists who study epics, ballads, sermons, and other narrative texts may benefit from Cawelti's ideas in understanding how the formulaic helps to facilitate the artistic and dynamic process of communication among members of small groups. Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes. By Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxv + 120, foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, 90 photographs and illustrations, notes, checklist of sources, index.) Karen M. Duffy Indiana State University In 1967, James Deetz wrote Invitation to Archaeology to introduce general readers to a field of study that was not well understood. Clearly and cordially, his slim handbook set forth essential information and a range of interesting examples to correct the situation. Nearly forty years later, Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley take inspiration from that model to extend a similar bid to anyone wishing to learn what the study of vernacular architecture is, how to go about it, and what it can reveal about human thought and behavior. Significantly, in their choice of title http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American Folklore American Folklore Society

Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes (review)

Journal of American Folklore , Volume 123 (488) – Apr 11, 2010

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Journal of American Folklore123(2010) sort of shorthand for speeding up the communication between writer and reader" (p. 134). Similarly, folklorists who study epics, ballads, sermons, and other narrative texts may benefit from Cawelti's ideas in understanding how the formulaic helps to facilitate the artistic and dynamic process of communication among members of small groups. Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes. By Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxv + 120, foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, 90 photographs and illustrations, notes, checklist of sources, index.) Karen M. Duffy Indiana State University In 1967, James Deetz wrote Invitation to Archaeology to introduce general readers to a field of study that was not well understood. Clearly and cordially, his slim handbook set forth essential information and a range of interesting examples to correct the situation. Nearly forty years later, Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley take inspiration from that model to extend a similar bid to anyone wishing to learn what the study of vernacular architecture is, how to go about it, and what it can reveal about human thought and behavior. Significantly, in their choice of title

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Published: Apr 11, 2010

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