LEADER 03648nam 22005415 450 001 9910272352703321 005 20220509185552.0 010 $a1-5017-2784-2 010 $a1-5017-2629-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501726293 035 $a(CKB)4340000000258219 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5317526 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00124895 035 $a(DE-B1597)496426 035 $a(OCoLC)1028956270 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501726293 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000258219 100 $a20180924d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aLord I'm Coming Home $eEveryday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina /$fJohn Forrest 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ1988 215 $a1 online resource (59 pages) 225 0 $aThe Anthropology of Contemporary Issues 311 $a0-8014-2146-2 311 $a1-5017-2630-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. The Fishing Day --$t2. The Aesthetic Realm --$t3. The Field Site --$t4. Aesthetics at Home --$t5. Aesthetics at Work --$t6. Aesthetics of the Church --$t7. Aesthetics of Leisure --$t8. Synthesis --$tAppendix A: Outlines of Selected Sermons --$tAppendix B: Tale of Wallace Tyler, Version #2 --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aLord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aesthetic to be an "everyday experience and not some rarefied and pure behavior reserved for an artistic elite. "The opening chapter of the book is a vivid fictional narrative of a typical day in "Tidewater," presented from the perspective of one fisherman. In the following two chapters the author sets forth the philosophical and anthropological foundations of his book, paying particular attention to problems of defining "aesthetic," to methodological concerns, and to the natural landscape of his field site. Reviewing his own experience as both participant and observer, he then describes in scrupulous detail the aesthetic forms in four areas of Tidewater life: home, work, church, and leisure. People use these forms, Forrest shows, to establish personal and group identities, facilitate certain kinds of interactions while inhibiting others, and cue appropriate behavior. His concluding chapter deals with the different life cycles of men and women, insider-outsider relations, secular and sacred domains, the image and metaphor of "home," and the essential role that aesthetics plays in these spheres. The first ethnography to evoke the full aesthetic life of a community, Lord I'm Coming Home will be important reading not only for anthropologists but also for scholars and students in the fields of American studies, art, folklore, and sociology. 410 0$aAnthropology of contemporary issues. 606 $aEthnology$zNorth Carolina 606 $aAesthetics$xSocial aspects$zNorth Carolina 607 $aNorth Carolina$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aAesthetics$xSocial aspects 676 $a301.09756 700 $aForrest$b John$f1951-$01074261 701 $aBlincoe$b Deborah$01074262 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910272352703321 996 $aLord I'm Coming Home$92572120 997 $aUNINA