{"product_id":"homeplace-michael-ann-williams-9780813923062","title":"Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina","description":"\u003cp\u003eChallenging 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 centuries. Their testimony links the perspective of former occupants and the experiential aspects of folk architecture with more traditional scholarly studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost scholarship on vernacular architecture emphasizes form and structure and is based primarily on the examination of extant buildings. While Homeplace contains floor plans and historical photographs, it also illustrates how oral history is often a more reliable guide in the interpretation of folk buildings than artifactual or documentary evidence. By foregrounding inhabitants' reminiscences, Williams brings rural Appalachian architecture to life by emphasizing human experience within the dwelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn examination of universal concerns--continuity and change in the inhabitants' uses and conceptualizations of interior spaces, domestic life and cultural change in southern Appalachia, the shifting importance of formal and informal spaces--Homeplace offers new insights into the folk building tradition and its cultural context that will be most helpful to those seeking a broader understanding of Appalachian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Ann Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813923069\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813923062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 6.26w x 0.61d","brand":"Michael Ann Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926414000383,"sku":"9780813923062","price":23.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ec0f3c21-8f81-44da-8489-04b637aa8476.jpg?v=1681082952","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/homeplace-michael-ann-williams-9780813923062","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}