Lord I'm Coming Home : : Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina / / John Forrest.

Lord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aest...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018]
©1988
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Physical Description:1 online resource (59 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Fishing Day
  • 2. The Aesthetic Realm
  • 3. The Field Site
  • 4. Aesthetics at Home
  • 5. Aesthetics at Work
  • 6. Aesthetics of the Church
  • 7. Aesthetics of Leisure
  • 8. Synthesis
  • Appendix A: Outlines of Selected Sermons
  • Appendix B: Tale of Wallace Tyler, Version #2
  • References
  • Index