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Sense of place : American regional cultures /
Despite the homogenization of American life, areas of strong regional consciousness still persist in the United States, and there is a growing interest in regionalism among the public and among academics. In response to that interest ten folklorists here describe and interpret a variety of American...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
©2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Regional studies in American folklore scholarship / Barbara Allen
- Folklore and reality in the American West / Barre Toelken
- Tornado stories in the breadbasket : weather and regional identity / Larry Danielson
- "One reason God made trees" : the form and ecology of the Barnegat Bay Sneakbox / Mary Hufford
- Mankind's thumb on nature's scale : trapping and regional identity in the Missouri Ozarks / Erika Brady
- Regional consciousness as a shaper of local history : examples from the Eastern shore / Polly Stewart
- Image and identity in Oregon's pioneer cemeteries / Richard E. Meyer
- Carbon-copy towns? the regionalization of ethnic folklife in southern Illinois's Egypt / John M. Coggeshall
- A regional musical style : the legacy of Arnold Shultz / William E. Lightfoot
- Creative constraints in the folk arts of Appalachia / Charles E. Martin
- The genealogical landscape and the Southern sense of place / Barbara Allen
- Regional culture studies and American culture studies / Thomas J. Schlereth.