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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

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Geographical Review, 1951

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Geographical Review, 1966

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Keyed notch, spring city Utah

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