Building in Colonial Louisiana: Creolization and the Survival of French Traditions

Maygarden, Benjamin

doi:10.1007/s10761-006-0012-4

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“…The architecture of colonial Louisiana has been well documented, with several buildings from the period still extant in Natchitoches Parish (Wells 1973;Edwards 1994Edwards , 2002Edwards , 2006Maygarden 2006). Dwellings commonly documented in late eighteenth-century north-western Louisiana took three forms:…”

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African earthen structures in colonial Louisiana: architecture from the Coincoin plantation (1787–1816)

MacDonald¹,

Morgan²

2012

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Coincoin, probably of Kongo parentage, was born a slave, became the concubine of a French planter, Pierre Metoyer, bore him ten children, and in 1787 was settled by him on a plantation of her own. Locating and excavating her house, the authors discovered it to be a type of clay-wall building known from West Africa. The house, together with an adjacent clay boundary wall, was probably built by slaves of Bight of Biafra origin loaned from the neighbouring plantation of her ex-partner. These structures are witness to emerging initiatives and interactions among people of African descent—but different African origins—in eighteenth-century Louisiana.

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Section: Earthen Architecture At the Coincoin Plantationmentioning

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African earthen structures in colonial Louisiana: architecture from the Coincoin plantation (1787–1816)

MacDonald¹,

Morgan²

2012

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“…286-287;Ennals and Holdsworth 1998;Green 1998;Kniffen and Glassie 1966, pp. 47-53;Maygarden 2006;Moogk 1977;Peterson 1941;Richardson 1973;Thurman 1984;Wells 1973;Wonders 1979). Canadien folk housing in the Great Lakes was characterized by the use of hand hewn, vertical timbers.…”

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From Ethnogenesis to Ethnic Segmentation in the Wabash Valley: Constructing Identity and Houses in Great Lakes Fur Trade Society

Mann

2008

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This study asks the question, "What happens when the colonizers become the colonized?" It examines the social, cultural and political-economic transformations that took place as first the British and then the Americans wrested control of Great Lakes fur trade from the French and their Native American allies. One result was the ethnic segmentation of the fur trade labor market, which attempted to relegate Canadiens to the role of fur trade laborers. In response Canadien traders constructed homes and identities that were constitutive of both their fur trade society heritage and their political-economic position.

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“…65.In Louisiana this is witnessed by a fusion of French, Spanish and Acadian vernacular architecture: Edwards 2006; Maygarden 2006. This is also best exemplified in the classic study of the southern US ‘shotgun house’: Vlach 1976a and 1976b.…”

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‘This Islande is Inhabited with all Sortes’: The Archaeology of Creolisation in Speightstown, Barbados, and Beyond, AD 1650–1900

Finneran¹

2013

Antiq. J.

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1. London, British Library, Sloane MS 3926. 2. Loftfield 2001. 3. The term 'creolisation' will be examined in more depth further on. At this stage it is sufficientalthough not particularly nuanced -to suggest that the process of creolisation is related to the admixture of cultural traits as opposed to emphasising the recognition of distinct imported social and cultural identities of individual and cultural traditions at the expense of others. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the noun 'creole' as relating to (a) the descendants of European settlers, particularly those of Spanish and/or French origin in the Americas; or (b) hybrid languages formed from local and settler tongues; or (c) a person of mixed European or African descent in the Caribbean. Adjectivally, it would imply hybridisation or mixing. 4. In fact, the earliest forms of local Barbadian pottery are not to be found on Barbados, but in Continental North America at the site of Charles Towne (Brunswick County, South Carolina), a site founded by settlers from Barbados and occupied only briefly during the period 1664-7;

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Building in Colonial Louisiana: Creolization and the Survival of French Traditions

Abstract: Documents and limited archaeological evidence indicate that the building methods of the Louisiana Acadians during the colonial period strongly reflected a heritage of late-medieval and early-modern French methods and techniques of constructing vernacular buildings.

Cited by 5 publications

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African earthen structures in colonial Louisiana: architecture from the Coincoin plantation (1787–1816)

African earthen structures in colonial Louisiana: architecture from the Coincoin plantation (1787–1816)

From Ethnogenesis to Ethnic Segmentation in the Wabash Valley: Constructing Identity and Houses in Great Lakes Fur Trade Society

‘This Islande is Inhabited with all Sortes’: The Archaeology of Creolisation in Speightstown, Barbados, and Beyond, AD 1650–1900

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