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Appalachian Ways
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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Appalachian Ways
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Author : Jill Durrance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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Appalachian Ways
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Author : Jill Durrance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Appalachian Ways written by Jill Durrance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Appalachian Region categories.
More Mountain People Places And Ways
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Author : Michael Joslin
language : en
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Release Date : 1992-12
More Mountain People Places And Ways written by Michael Joslin and has been published by The Overmountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This volume draws its material from the same wealth of mountain culture as the first, with stories and photographs of the mountains of today and yesterday creating a vivid picture of a vital way of life.
Authority And The Mountaineer In Cormac Mccarthy S Appalachia
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Author : Gabe Rikard
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-08-29
Authority And The Mountaineer In Cormac Mccarthy S Appalachia written by Gabe Rikard and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The author uses theories on power, resistance and discipline developed by Michel Foucault to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the authorities who have attempted to "modernize" them. The book shows how McCarthy manipulates Appalachian images while engaging in a form of archeology of Appalachian constructs. Initially the book explores the interplay of the dominance/resistance duality. Roads provided ways into the mountains for industry and ways out for the mountaineer, cotton mill villages and regional cities served as "disciplined" destinations for Appalachian out-migrants. McCarthy's character Lester Ballard (Child of God) represents the epitome of hillbilly delinquency. The author explains how the iconic image of the mountaineer--a notion cultivated by fiction writers, benevolent organizations, and academics--"othered" the mountain people as deviants. The book ends by considering the ways in which The Road returns to the rhetorical and geographical region of his early work, and how it fits into McCarthy's Appalachian oeuvre.
Mountain Ways
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Author : Art Cuelho
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-01-01
Mountain Ways written by Art Cuelho and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with American literature categories.
Appalachian Folkways
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Author : John B. Rehder
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2004-07-12
Appalachian Folkways written by John B. Rehder and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-12 with Architecture categories.
Winner of the Kniffen Award and an Honorable Mention from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards in Sociology and Anthropology Appalachia may be the most mythologized and misunderstood place in America, its way of life and inhabitants both caricatured and celebrated in the mainstream media. Over generations, though, the families living in the mountainous region stretching from West Virginia to northeastern Alabama have forged one of the country's richest and most distinctive cultures, encompassing music, food, architecture, customs, and language. In Appalachian Folkways, geographer John Rehder offers an engaging and enlightening account of southern Appalachia and its cultural milieu that is at once sweeping and intimate. From architecture and traditional livelihoods to beliefs and art, Rehder, who has spent thirty years studying the region, offers a nuanced depiction of southern Appalachia's social and cultural identity. The book opens with an expert consideration of the southern Appalachian landscape, defined by mountains, rocky soil, thick forests, and plentiful streams. While these features have shaped the inhabitants of the region, Rehder notes, Appalachians have also shaped their environment, and he goes on to explore the human influence on the landscape. From physical geography, the book moves to settlement patterns, describing the Indian tribes that flourished before European settlement and the successive waves of migration that brought Melungeon, Scotch-Irish, English, and German settlers to the region, along with the cultural contributions each made to what became a distinct Appalachian culture. Next focusing on the folk culture of Appalachia, Rehder details such cultural expressions as architecture and landscape design; traditional and more recent ways of making a living, both legal and illegal; foodstuffs and cooking techniques; folk remedies and belief systems; music, art, and the folk festivals that today attract visitors from around the world; and the region's dialect. With its broad scope and deep research, Appalachian Folkways accurately and evocatively chronicles a way of life that is fast disappearing.
Hill Women
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Author : Cassie Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2020-01-07
Hill Women written by Cassie Chambers and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “Poverty is enmeshed with pride in these stories of survival.”—Associated Press Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up in these hollers and, through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Despite her poverty, she wouldn’t hesitate to give the last bite of pie or vegetables from her garden to a struggling neighbor. Her two daughters took very different paths: strong-willed Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while spirited Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school, then moved an hour away for college. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish school. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated her from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County, both while Wilma was in college and after. With her “hill women” values guiding her, Cassie went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her knowledge and opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved back home to help her fellow rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues that are all too common: domestic violence, the opioid crisis, a world that seems more divided by the day. But they are also community leaders, keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers uses these women’s stories paired with her own journey to break down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminate a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.
The Appalachian Way In Coal Country
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Author : Lois Walker West
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-11-03
The Appalachian Way In Coal Country written by Lois Walker West and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Living in a home with no electricity, no indoor plumbing, and an outhouse for a bathroom is a few of the true inconveniences experienced by the author as a child. Her parents had lived in Kentucky long before she was born. Her ancestors found their way into the Kentucky mountains from Scotland and Ireland by way of England in search of a better life. The search ended when they reached the southeastern Kentucky mountains. Land in that area was most likely available through land grants. In the early 1930s, the father inherited a parcel of the land that was once owned by the great-grandfather. These twenty acres or more provided the family a way to survive in this remote area. The natural wooded area changed drastically when coal was found in that area of Kentucky. A large part of the grandfather's land was leased to a coal mining company. The development of coal mining communities covered many acres of the land. This was when Allais, Kentucky, was added to the map. After many years of working underground in a coal mine, the father was diagnosed with a form of leukemia in the late 1940s. He was blessed with relatives and friends in Allais when they donated the blood he needed to live. He prayed to God to keep him alive until all his children were on their own. God chose to take him in a car accident the day his last child was getting her marriage license. The author's memories of her happy childhood are true experiences, and her love of Kentucky will remain and be passed on to all her present and future generations.
Mountain People Places And Ways
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Author : Michael Joslin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Mountain People Places And Ways written by Michael Joslin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Appalachian Region, Southern categories.