1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966249403321

Autore

Randolph Vance

Titolo

The Ozarks : An American Survival of Primitive Society / / Vance Randolph ; [edited by] Robert Cochran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, [North Carolina] : , : The University of Arkansas Press, , 2017

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Chronicles of the ozarks

Disciplina

917.5033

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Ozark Mountains

Missouri Social life and customs

Arkansas Social life and customs

Ozark Mountains Songs and music

Arkansas

Missouri

United States Ozark Mountains

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Old trails and campfires -- The hill-billy at home -- Womenfolk and social life -- The Ozark dialect -- Signs and superstitions -- The passing of the play-party -- Ozark folk-songs -- Ways that are dark -- Shooting for beef -- Jumpers, giggers and noodlers -- Fools' gold -- The coming of the "furriners."

Sommario/riassunto

Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described "hack writer, " he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, even as his essentially romantic identification with the region he first visited as the vacationing child of mainstream parents was encouraged by editors and tempered by his scientific training. In The Ozarks, originally published in 1931, we have Randolph's first book-length portrait of the people he would spend the next half-century studying. The full range of Randolph's interests-in language, in hunting and fishing, in folksongs



and play parties, in moonshining-is on view in this book that made his name; forever after he was "Mr. Ozark, " the region's preeminent expert who would, in collection after collection, enlarge and deepen his debut effort. With a new introduction by Robert Cochran, The Ozarks is the second entry in the Chronicles of the Ozarks series, a reprint series that will make available some of the Depression Era's Ozarks books. An image shaper in its day, a cultural artifact for decades to come, this wonderful book is as entertaining as ever.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972421803321

Autore

Schillmeier Michael W. J

Titolo

Rethinking disability : bodies, senses and things / / Michael Schillmeier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-99340-1

1-136-99341-X

1-282-56982-1

9786612569821

0-203-85484-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Collana

Routledge studies in science, technology and society ; ; 11

Disciplina

305.9/08

305.908

Soggetti

Sociology of disability

Human body - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rethinking Disability:Revisiting the Social; Part I 'The Social' in Question: Rethinking Modern Di/visions; 1 The Social and the Religion of Modernity; 2 Othering Blindness in the Light of Vision and Di/vision; Part II In Medias Res; 3 A Dis/ability Manifesto; Part III Dis/abling Practices; 4 Dis/abling Spaces of Calculation; 5 Time-Spaces of In/dependence and Dis/ability; 6 From Exclusive Perspectives to Inclusive Differences; 7 Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday life and configure ""enabling"" and ""disabling"" scenarios. Relevant to a broad spectrum of medical practitioners and practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS.