LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.04.22 (09) [E]

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From: ezinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.04.21 (02) [E]

Hi all,

Pat, I don't think the average SA tourist guide is that au fait
with architectural history to start off with.

Sitting on the stoep is not the prerogative of the Afrikaner.
We were always fascinated with other nationals lounging the
day away on their stoeps as if there's no chores to do.
We did not all have servants, see?!

Regards,
Elsie Zinsser

>>What I find intersecting is that when tourist guides,
architectural historians and so on are describing what makes a building
'Dutch', in South Africa, they tend not to mention the stoep. I am not
sure yet how statistically significant this is, but feel it may be due
to the negative identification of the stoep in South Africa with a
particular kind of Afrikaner.

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From: ezinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Sayings" 2004.04.22 (02) [E]

Hi all

Utz, here in our arid Northwestern Cape, my aunts had their
'bakoond' and soap cooking 'plant' out in the open, some 5
meters from the mainhouse, which was often built in adobe
brick and roofed with reed and later sink.

The circled area around the oven, stoked with twigs, was
walled with dried thornbush and a makeshift gate (in the same
material) kept the 'hanslammers' and pesky animals out of the
area.

Regards,
Elsie Zinsser

>'Backhuus': in former times bread was baken on the farms in outdoor
ovens or separated houses with an oven. I think that came from the
thatched roofs of the farm houses, the traditional roof building
material was reed (as it is still in use in some areas). So it should be
a small house only for bakery purposes.

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