Mountains of Experience. Volume One : Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, International

Mountains of Experience Volume One : Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, International Volume One :

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions from various disciplines by Parks Lanier, Jr.; Marilou Awiakta; C. Clifford Boyd, Jr.; Ricky L. Cox; Betty Smith; James E. Byer; Edgar H. Thompson; Teresa Wheeling; Paul J. Weingartner, Dwight Billings, and Kathleen...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lanier, Parks Jr., editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Appalachian State University 1989.
Subjects:
Economic history.
Social sciences.
Manners and customs.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Social life and customs.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655249606719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Keynote Address: Appalachians, Pioneers
  • For the New Age
  • Mountains of Experience: Interdisciplinary
  • Prehistoric and Historic Human Adaptation in Appalachia: An Archaeological Perspective
  • Used Parts and the Poetic Impulse: Machines as Alternative Means of Expression
  • Jane Gentry: A Singer Among Singers
  • Legendary Places: the Literature of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  • Jesse Stuart's Archetypal Vision of Appalachian Culture: the Thread Still Runs True
  • Across The Mountains: Appalachian Literature and the Unsuspecting Student
  • Mountains of Experience: Intercultural
  • Agriculture In Preindustrial Appalachia: Subsistence Farming in Beech Creek, 1850-1880
  • Biculturalism: A Comparison of Central Appalachians and the Inupiat of Alaska
  • Appalachian Culture As Reaction to Uneven Development: A World Systems Approach to Regionalism
  • The Influence of the Smoot Tannery on the Economic Development of Wilkes County, N.C. 1897-1940
  • Mountains of Experience: International Mountain Foragers in Southeast Asia and Appalachia: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the "Mountain Man" Stereotype
  • Appalachians and Orientalism: Reflections on Reading Edward Said
  • Llewellyn and Giardina: Two Novels about Coal Mining
  • Traditional Appalachian Culture and Traditional Scottish Highland Culture Compared: A Personal Perspective.

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