Appalachian Valley

Hicks, George L.

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Language: English

Published by Thomson Learning, 1976

0030773059 / 9780030773051

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xiv, 112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: Introduction: Studying Little Laurel The Little Laurel: An Overview The Pioneer Past and Recent Change Kinship and Sex Roles Land as Place and Property Settlement and Community Communication The Ethnic Neutrality Beyond the Valley. Summary:"In this pithy ethnography detailing the people of the Little Laurel Valley of western North Carolina, Hicks has accomplished an anthropological ideal--he takes us beyond the caricatured features of the hillbilly image and into the Appalachian folk culture, examining the surroundings with a compassionate and observant objectivity. While no longer completely isolated from the mainstream of American culture, the Little Laurel Valley preserves its cultural uniqueness in its local attitudes, speech, kinship relationships, and a strongly felt, cohesive identity based upon a knowledge of positive distinction. Characterized by an emphasis on egalitarianism, the strong belief in personal independence and individualism, clearly defined sex roles, a great regard for the rural life and the household within it, and a pervasive suspicion of urban things and people, the culture of the Little Laurel is reminiscent of earlier colonial American culture, and the small communities of rural Great Britain."--Publisher description.…

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Title
Appalachian Valley
Author
Hicks, George L.
Publisher
Thomson Learning
Publication year
1976
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0030773059
ISBN 13
9780030773051
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