The West Indian hip-roofed cottage

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 3: 97-104

Notes

This is a preliminary study of a previously nearly untouched aspect of West Indian cultural geography. As such, and because of a major methodological weakness, this paper must be prefaced by an explicit reservation. In no case was the period of field work long enough to permit inspection of house interiors in more than a statistically negligible number of examples, hence the plans of houses and arrangements of rooms are little known. Second, in order to obtain any feeling for the West Indian distribution of house types, a subject on which there is almost no literature, it was necessary to rely very largely on photographs, many of them taken from a considerable distance and showing only the general shape of the house. As a result it might be argued that the phenomenon under consideration is not adequate to constitute a house type as such, but is simply one major facet of type recognition : the roof.

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