The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape (Creating the North American Landscape),Used

The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape (Creating the North American Landscape),Used

In Stock
SKU: SONG0801854318
Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press
$16.37
Quantity
Add to wishlist
Add to compare

Processing time: 1-3 days

US Orders Ships in: 3-5 days

International Orders Ships in: 8-12 days

Return Policy: 15-days return on defective items

Payment Option
Payment Methods

Help

If you have any questions, you are always welcome to contact us. We'll get back to you as soon as possible, withing 24 hours on weekdays.

Customer service

All questions about your order, return and delivery must be sent to our customer service team by e-mail at yourstore@yourdomain.com

Sale & Press

If you are interested in selling our products, need more information about our brand or wish to make a collaboration, please contact us at press@yourdomain.com

Why is the Westboth in the United States and Canadanot like the East? Traditionally, two answers have been given to the question: Either the West is a pioneer culturethe old frontier moved westward from what we now call the Eastor the West is a unique subculture originating in a human response to the demands of a dry, rugged physical environment.In this groundbreaking volume, Terry Jordan and his coauthors look to the log folk buildings of the Mountain West, from New Mexico to Alaska, to explain why the West is "the West." Arguing that artifacts such as dwellings, barns, and fences can, if correctly interpreted, reveal much about the origins and character of the regional culture, they set forth not only the first comprehensive description and analysis of Western folk architecture but also a systematic explanation of the culture of the West."The West," the authors conclude, "is at once indigenous and imported, innovative and ultraconservative, AngloAmerican and ethnic, unitary and plural." Westerners tinkered, invented, modified, and diversified. No single adaptive strategy brought to the West worked flawlessly in the new habitat. By extensive field investigation of stillextant folk houses, fences, barns, hay derricks, and cabinsall elements of material culturethey explain what the land tells us about the West.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

Recently Viewed