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Make/Author/Artist: Yoder, Don
Details: Hard Cover
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AMERFOLK
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American Folklife A series of scholarly articles collected in this book -- illustrated with B&W photos.
From opening remarks on the history of the folklife studies movement in America to final chapters on the art and customs of the Pennsylvania Germans, Discovering American Folklife not only shows the scope of Don Yoder's writing, but provides an index of the current breadth of folklife studies research as well.
Table of contents:
1. Folklife Studies in American Scholarship
2. Folklife Study and Social Change
3. Uses of the Artist Past
4. American Cultural Geography and Folklife
5. Film Documentation of Folklife
6. Folk Boats of Eastern French Louisiana
7. Afro-American Coil Basketry in Charleston Country South Carolina: Affective Characteristics of an Artistic Craft in a Social Context
8. The Whitaker-Waggoner Log House from Morgan County Indiana
9. Tollgate Lore from Upstate New York: A Contribution to Folk-Cultural Studies
10. Ethnic Tensions in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in 1860
11. Wishing in and Shooting in the New among Germans in the Carolinas
12. Morality in a Yoruba Ritual in Trinidad
CONDITION: Hardcover, lightly used, 304 pages including index, former library book with markings removed, wear to board edges all else very good.
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