Mountains of Experience. : Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, International / / Volume One : / edited by Parks Lanier, Jr.

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions from various disciplines by Parks Lanier, Jr.; Marilou Awiakta; C. Clifford Boyd, Jr.; Ricky L. Cox; Betty Smith; James E. Byer; Edgar H. Thompson; Teresa Wheeling; Paul J. Weingartner, Dwight Billings, and Kathleen...

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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Appalachian State University,, 1989.
Year of Publication:1989
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Keynote Address: Appalachians, Pioneers
  • For the New Age
  • Mountains of Experience: Interdisciplinary
  • Prehistoric and Historic Human Adaptation in Appalachia: An Archaeological Perspective
  • Used Parts and the Poetic Impulse: Machines as Alternative Means of Expression
  • Jane Gentry: A Singer Among Singers
  • Legendary Places: the Literature of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  • Jesse Stuart's Archetypal Vision of Appalachian Culture: the Thread Still Runs True
  • Across The Mountains: Appalachian Literature and the Unsuspecting Student
  • Mountains of Experience: Intercultural
  • Agriculture In Preindustrial Appalachia: Subsistence Farming in Beech Creek, 1850-1880
  • Biculturalism: A Comparison of Central Appalachians and the Inupiat of Alaska
  • Appalachian Culture As Reaction to Uneven Development: A World Systems Approach to Regionalism
  • The Influence of the Smoot Tannery on the Economic Development of Wilkes County, N.C. 1897-1940
  • Mountains of Experience: International Mountain Foragers in Southeast Asia and Appalachia: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the "Mountain Man" Stereotype
  • Appalachians and Orientalism: Reflections on Reading Edward Said
  • Llewellyn and Giardina: Two Novels about Coal Mining
  • Traditional Appalachian Culture and Traditional Scottish Highland Culture Compared: A Personal Perspective.