Using Techniques of construction to plot cultural process Fred
Kniffen and Henry Glassie Building in wood in the Eastern United
States
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Kniffen bibliography "Achomawi geography." University of
California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology
23(5): 297-332, 1928. "The primitive cultural landscapes of the
Colorado Delta." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography 5(2):43-66, 1931.
"The Natural Landscape of the Colorado Delta." Univ. Calif. Publ.
in Geography, 5(4):149-244, 1932. "Bayou Manchac: a physiographic
interpretation." Geographical. Review, 25:462-466, 1935. "Walapai
Ethnography." Mem., Amer. Anthropological Assocation, No. 42, 293
pp., 1935. "Louisiana house types." Annals, 26:179-193, 1936. The
mounds and middens of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes."
Geographical Bull., La. Dept. Conservation, 8:407-418, 1936.
"Problems in cultural geography." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr.,
27:162-167. "The Indian mounds of Iberville parish." Geol. Bull.,
La. Dept. Cons., 13:189-206, 1938. "Pomo geography." Univ. Calif.
Publ. in Amer. Arch. and Ethnol., 36: 353-400, 1939. The Indians of
Louisiana. LSU, College of Ed. 1945. 2nd. ed. 1966. "The American
agricultural fair: the pattern." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr.,
39(4):264-282, 1949. (Reprinted by Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.) "A Spanish
(?) spinner in Louisiana." Southern Folklore Quarterly, 13(4):
192-199, 1949. "The American covered bridge." Geogr. Review,
41(1):114-123, 1951. "Geography and the past." Journal of
Geography, 50(3):126-129, 1951. Culture Worlds. (with R.J. Russell)
New York: The Macmillan Co., 620 pp. 1951. Revised, 1961. Revised
(with Russell and Pruitt), 1969. "The American agricultural fair:
time and place." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 41(1):42-57, 1961.
"The western cattle complex: notes on differentiation and
diffusion." Western Folklore, 12(3):179-185, 1953. "Louisiana iron
rock." (with J. McCarter) Economic Geography, 29(4):299-306, 1953.
"The outdoor oven in Louisiana." Louisiana History, 1(1):25-35,
1960. "To know the land and its people." Landscape, 9(3):20-23,
1960. "Disaster and reconstruction in Cameron parish." (with Martin
Wright) La. Studies, 2(2):74-83, 1963. "Folk housing: key to
diffusion." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 55(4): 549-577, 1965.
"Building in wood in the eastern United States: a time-place
perspective." (with Henry Glassie) Geogr. Review, 56(1):40-66,
1966. Louisiana, Its Land and People. Baton Rouge: L.S.U. Press,
1968. "Richard Joel Russell, 1895-1971." Annals, Assoc. Amer.
Geogr., 63:241-249, 1973. "Material culture in the geographic
interpretation of the landscape." In Miles Richardson (ed.), The
Human Mirror. Louisiana State Press, pp. 252-268, 1974. "Geography
and folklife." In American Folklife. Univ. of Texas Press, pp.
51-70, 1976. "The Spanish moss folk industry of Louisiana." Mlange.
Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1979. "On becoming a geographer."
Journal of Geography, 82(2):48-49, 1983.
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Who is Fred Kniffen? FRED B. KNIFFEN (Ph.D., 1930) "The
Colorado Delta, Mexico." (Sauer) b. 18 January 1900, Britton,
Michigan. m. Virginia Arp; children. Samuel, Donald, Nancy,
Anthony. Died 1993 A.B. Univ. of Michigan (Geology) 1922. Louisiana
State Univ. (since 1929) (Boyd Professor; Emeritus since 1970)
Rosenwald Fellow, 1938-1939. L.S.U. Foundation Distinguished
Professor, 1966-1967; Citation, AAG, 1978; First Annual Award, La.
Folklore Society, 1982. Hon. Pres., Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 1966-1967.
Chairman, Southwest Sec., Assoc. Amer. Geogr.; Councilor, Assoc.
Amer. Geogr., 1960- 61.
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Albert L. Kroeber
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Carl O. Sauer
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Cultural Landscapes Factors Forms Geological Climatic
Vegetational Time Weather Land Surface Soil Drainage Mineral
resources Sea and coast Plants Natural Landscape Population Density
Mobility Housing Plan Structure Production Communication Cultural
Landscape Natural Landscape Time Forms Medium From Paul Knox and
Sallie Marston
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Fred Kniffen
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Using the visible characteristics as feature list for
typology
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Distinguish by form, function, and including construction