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Listening for a life: a dialogic ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through her songs and stories
eBook. English.
2004
"In one sense a folklorist's portrayal of a folk artist's life and art, Listening for a Life is equally a rethinking of the processes involved in such...
Deep Down
Electronic resource. English.
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA]: Kanopy Streaming, 2015
Beverly and Terry grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst...
Reconstructing Appalachia: the Civil War's aftermath
eBook. English.
Published
Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, c2010
Prodigal summer
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Faber, 2001
This work weaves together stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays...
Weavers of the Southern Highlands
Book. English.
Published
Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2003
Here, Philis Alvic, a weaver for over 35 years, brings an insider's perspective to the history of Appalachian handweaving and the people and agencies...
The African-American family in slavery and emancipation
Paperback. English.
Published
New York; Cambridge: Maison des sciences de l'homme/Cambridge University Press, 2003
In The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, Wilma Dunaway calls into question the dominant paradigm of the US slave family. She contends...
Basketry of the Appalachian mountains
Book. Undetermined.
Published
New York; London (etc.): Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977
Baskets and basket makers in southern Appalachia
Book. Undetermined.
Published
Exton, Pa.: Schiffer, c1982
This is perhaps the country's most authentic and colorful book on American baskets and the interesting people who made them. Although this in-depth people...
Perish
eBook. English.
Published
[London]: Bloomsbury, [2013]
Set in a house in East Tennessee, surrounded by the woods in what was once the most beautiful place on earth, 'Perish' is textured with poetry and grit...
