Abstract

ABSTRACT Pioneer log houses of Anglo Louisiana incompletely fit some of the more common theories used to explain Southern folk houses. Slight modifications of some of these theories can be reconciled with observed houses if we radically change the conception of the type from an imposed model to an instance of man's public life. This reformulation of the ontogenic status of the house, checked against comparisons of several hundred houses, allows us to find the place of the Louisiana log houses.

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