Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina

by Michael Ann Williams

Book Overview

Challenging many of the methods and preconceptions of conventional folk-architecture studies, Homeplace examines traditional houses in the mountains of Appalachia from the perspective offered by oral histories. Michael Ann Williams bases much of her study on interviews with some of the people most intimately familiar with her subject: more than fifty individuals born and raised in southwestern North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813923069
• ISBN13: 9780813923062
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher