Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov (1938–2003)

Autore di The Human Mosaic

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The W. P. Webb Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Texas in Austin, Terry G. Jordan received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1965 and was part of the strong tradition in historical geography there. Over the past 20 years, he has produced a set of books that mostra altro combine the best traditions in cultural geography. In these works he has included both cultural landscape features, such as building types, and more broadly relevant historical topics, such as ethnicity. Jordan, who has served as president of the Association of American Geographers, also has brought his expertise to general texts in cultural geography. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Comprende i nomi: Jordan Terry G, Terry G. Jordan, Terry G. Jordan, Terry Jordan-Bychkov, Professor Terry G. Jordan, Terry G. Terry G.; Jordan Jordan-Bychkov

Nota di disambiguazione:

(eng) He changed his name to Jordan-Bychkov in 1993, after his marriage to Bella Bychkova.

Opere di Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov

Popolari Recenti

The Human Mosaic (1979) 107 copie

Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (1982) 88 copie

German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas (1966) 55 copie

Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture (1978) 42 copie

North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation (1993) 22 copie

American log buildings : an Old World heritage (1985) 17 copie

The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk Region (2003) 10 copie

Log Cabin Village: History and Guide (1980) 9 copie

Australia (Modern World Nations) (2003) 8 copie

The European Culture Area (2001) 8 copie

The Mountain West : Interpreting the Folk Landscape (1996) 7 copie

Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching (1981) 7 copie

The European Culture Area: A Systematic Geography (1973) 3 copie

Fundamentals Of The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Approach to Cultural Geography (2010) 1 copia

Log cabin village : a history and guide / 1 copia

Hill county folk: The Willmann-Nies-Kn�lle Family in Germany and Texas 1 copia

The German Element of Gillespie County, Texas 1 copia

“Preadaptation and European Colonization in Rural North America,” Annals of the Association of American… 1 copia

Trails to Texas. 1 copia

Fort Worth's Log Cabin Village 1 copia

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Nome canonico: Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G.
Altri nomi: Jordan, Terry
Data di nascita: 1938-08-09
Data di morte: 2003-10-16
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Dallas, Texas, USA
Luogo di residenza: Austin, Texas, USA
Istruzione: Southern Methodist University (BS ∙ Geography ∙ 1960)
University of Texas, Austin (MA ∙ Geography ∙ 1961)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. ∙ Geography ∙ 1965)
Attività lavorative: professor
Organizzazioni: University of Texas at Austin
Nota di disambiguazione: He changed his name to Jordan-Bychkov in 1993, after his marriage to Bella Bychkova.

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Texas graveyards : a cultural legacy di Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov

Terry G. Jordan was a professor of cultural geography at North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas) when this book was published in 1982. This book discusses the features of three types of cultural graveyards typically found in Texas - Mexican, German, and what the author calls "southern" (a blend of Anglo-American, African-American, and Native-American customs).

Although an academic book, with seven small-font pages each of endnotes and bibliography, and a three-page index, it is quite readable, as it is only 126 pages and is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photos and drawings, and includes a double-page-spread map of Texas counties. Some color photos, especially in the Mexican graveyard chapter, would have been a nice addition.

The chapter on German graveyards was particularly interesting, especially the sections on internal spatial arrangement (stone and wood grave curbings), metal glass wreath boxes, intricate metalwork crosses, elaborate (often rhyming) epitaphs in German, and the various hex signs and symbols decorating markers: Sonnenrad (sun wheels), Hakenkreuz (swastika, often whirling), Sechsstern (six-pointed stars), Urbogen (arc), Drudenfuss or Hexefiess ("witch's foot"), Pentagramm, and Teutonic concave-pointed turnip-shaped hearts.… (altro)