Low Country Gullah Culture Special Resource Study
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Low Country Gullah Culture Special Resource Study
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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Low Country Gullah Culture
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Author : National Park Service
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-05-17
Low Country Gullah Culture written by National Park Service and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-17 with Social Science categories.
This study was done to determine whether or not the National Park Service should have a role in preserving Gullah culture and if so, what that role might be.
Gullah Culture In America
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Author : Wilbur Cross
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2007-12-30
Gullah Culture In America written by Wilbur Cross and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-30 with Social Science categories.
In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong African cultural retention and a direct influence on American culture, particularly in the South-described in this fascinating book. Since long before the Revolution, America has had hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with a language of its own, and long endowed with traditions, language, design, medicine, agriculture, fishing, hunting, weaving, and the arts. This book explores the Gullah culture's direct link to Africa, via the sea islands of the American southeast. The first published evidence of Gullah went almost unrecorded until the 1860s, when missionaries from Philadelphia made their way, even as the Civil War was at its height, to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, to establish a small institution called Penn School to help freed slaves learn how to read and write and make a living in a world of upheaval and distress. There they noticed that most of the islanders spoke a language that was only part English, tempered with expressions and idioms, often spoken in a melodious, euphonic manner, accompanied by distinctive practices in religion, work, dancing, greetings, and the arts. The homogeneity, richness, and consistency of this culture was possible because the sea-islanders were isolated. Even today, there are more than 300,000 Gullah people, many of whom speak little or no English, living in the remoter areas of the sea islands of St. Helena, Edisto, Coosay, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Daufuskie, and Cumberland. Gullah Culture in America explores not only the history of Gullah, but takes the reader behind the scenes of Gullah culture today to show what it's like to grow up, live, and celebrate in this remarkable and uniquely American community.
A Delicate Balance
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Author : Angela C. Halfacre
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2013-04-15
A Delicate Balance written by Angela C. Halfacre and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Nature categories.
Sustainability of the natural environment and of our society has become one of the most urgent challenges facing modern Americans. Communities across the country are seeking a viable pattern of growth that promotes prosperity, protects the environment, and preserves the distinctive quality of life of their regions. The coastal zone of South Carolina is one of the most endangered, culturally complex regions in the state and perhaps in all of the American South. A Delicate Balance examines how a multilayered culture of environmental conservation and sustainable development has emerged in the lowcountry of South Carolina. Angela C. Halfacre, a political scientist, describes how sprawl shock, natural disaster, climate change, and other factors spawned and sustain—but also threaten and hinder—the culture of conservation. Since Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the coastal region of South Carolina has experienced unprecedented increases in residential and commercial development. A Delicate Balance uses interdisciplinary literature and ethnographic, historical, and spatial methods to show how growing numbers of lowcountry residents, bolstered by substantial political, corporate, and media support, have sought to maintain the region's distinctive sense of place as well as its fragile ecology. The diverse social and cultural threads forming the fabric of the lowcountry conservation culture include those who make their living from the land, such as African American basket makers and multigenerational famers, as well as those who own, manage, and develop the land and homeowner association members. Evolving perceptions, policies, and practices that characterize community priorities and help to achieve the ultimate goal of sustainability are highlighted here. As Halfacre demonstrates, maintaining the quality of the environment while accommodating residential, commercial, and industrial growth is a balancing act replete with compromises. This book documents the origins, goals, programs, leaders, tactics, and effectiveness of a conservation culture. A Delicate Balance deftly illustrates that a resilient culture of conservation that wields growing influence in the lowcountry has become an important regional model for conservation efforts across the nation. A Delicate Balance also includes a foreword by journalist Cynthia Barnett, author of Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis and Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
African Reflections On The American Landscape
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Author : Brian D. Joyner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
African Reflections On The American Landscape written by Brian D. Joyner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Africa categories.
"Summarizes highlights of the scholarship presented at the conference, 'Places of cultural memory: African reflections on the American landscape, ' ... held May 9-12 in Atlanta, Georgia. It ... illustrates ways in which this scholarship can be applied"--Page v.
Teaching Learning Landscape
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Author : Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Meeting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Teaching Learning Landscape written by Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Meeting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Landscape architecture categories.
Black Congressional Monitor
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Black Congressional Monitor written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with African American legislators categories.
Practicing Anthropology
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Practicing Anthropology written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Anthropologists categories.
Afro Atlantic Dialogues
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Author : Kevin A. Yelvington
language : en
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Release Date : 2006
Afro Atlantic Dialogues written by Kevin A. Yelvington and has been published by School for Advanced Research Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Africa categories.
This book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in the study of the African diaspora in the Atlantic world. Leading scholars of archaeology, linguistics, and socio-cultural anthropology draw upon extensive field experiences and archival investigations of black communities in North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa to challenge received paradigms in Afro-American anthropology. They employ dialogic approaches that demand both an awareness of the historical fashioning of anthropology's categories and selfreflexive, critical research and define a new agenda for the field. Paying close attention to power, politics, and the dynamism of never-finished, open-ended behavioral forms and symbolic repertoires, the contributors address colonialism, the slave trade, racism, ethnogenesis, New World nationalism, urban identity politics, the development of artworlds, musics and their publics, the emergence of new religious and ritual forms, speech genres, and contested historical representations. The authors offer sophisticated interpretations of cultural change, exchange, appropriation, and re-appropriation that challenge simplistic notions of culture.
Federal Register
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-03
Federal Register written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03 with Administrative law categories.