1. Folk Culture

2. What is folk culture?

3. Folk Culture is the practices of a relatively small group of people in a focused area.

4. Folk Culture Usually relatively isolated
Often dependent on the environment
Usually practiced by small, homogenous groups in isolated areas.
Are often isolated or have multiple hearths
Anonymous hearths, anonymous sources, anonymous dates

5. Groups that practice a Folk Culture can be expressed in three ways:

6. Indigenous Cultures
A culture group made up of the original inhabitants of a territory that is distinct from the dominant national culture.

7. Folk Culture Region
A culture group where norms are traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

8. Subculture
A group that shares in some parts of the dominant culture but has their own distinctive values, norms, language, and/or material culture.

9. Folk Music

10. Music composed by unknown composers and transmitted through oral tradition.
Contains important life cycle event (birth, death, and marriage) customs.
Often used to teach successive generations about culturally relevant topics.

11. A Vietnamese Folk Song
While seedlings for the summer crop are no old when they are three months of age, Seedlings for the winter crop are certainly not young when they are one-and-a-half months old.

12. Folk Housing Reflect both cultural and environmental influences
Often based on the resources available
Houses from different regions can be vastly different even in similar environments.

13. Types of Materials

14. Materials: Thatching

15. Materials: Mud brick

16. Materials: Sod

17. Materials: Timber

18. Materials: Stone

19. Vernacular Housing in the US

20. New England
Salt Box
Two Chimney
Cape Cod
Front Gable and Wing

21. Salt Box House

22. Two Chimney House

23. Cape Cod House

24. Front Gable and Wing House

25. Swiss-German Barn House
Middle Atlantic
I-House
Swiss-German Barn House
Lower-Chesapeake
Steep Roof

26. I-House

27. Barn House