Mountains of Experience . Volume One : Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, International / / edited by Parks Lanier, Jr

• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified] : , : Appalachian State University, , 1989
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 pages)
• Disciplina: 300
• Soggetto topico: Economic history; Social sciences; Manners and customs
• Soggetto geografico: Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs
• Persona (resp. second.): LanierParks Jr.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 M. Blee; Nelda Knelson Daley; Roberta McKenzie; Barry Elledge; Benita J. Howell; Rodger Cunningham; Laurie Lindberg; and Clyde H. Ray.
• Altri titoli varianti: Mountains of Experience
• Titolo autorizzato: Mountains of Experience
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557806903321
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