![]() One of the most interesting things of this work was that at the end Glassie lamented that there is “little place for material folk culture in our world… many material traditions were developed as solutions to problems that no longer exist” (237). ![]() ![]() Thus by looking at the types of buildings made in a place, Glassie was able to define early America’s folk culture into three main regions of the North, the Mid Atlantic, and the South, which arose out of settlement history topography and economics (184, 187-188). In order to best study what folk material culture is, Glassie looked at architecture since it is the best to examine the regional patterns as opposed to more general purpose objects such as clothing (35). One of the main points that Glassie made was that folk culture cannot be part of popular or academic culture and unlike the other two has major variations through space but limited through time, meaning that folk culture is traditional and resistant to change (5,33). ![]() The main reading was Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States by Henry Glassie, which looked to define what folk culture was and trace its manifestations in the early United States. This week’s readings focused on the ideas of craft and folk culture and examined what these non-popular cultural objects are. ![]()
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