The Impact of Institutions in Appalachia / / Jim Lloyd and Anne G. Campbell [editors].

This volume of the Proceedings of the 8th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1986 in Berea, Kentucky, offers a sampling of papers presented at the conference. Paper topics include religion; government and technology; capitalism and coal; regional photographers; sports and play in Souther...

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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Appalachian State University,, [1986]
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Year of Publication:1986
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (198 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION, Anne Campbell i
  • TRIBUTES TO GRATIS WILLIAMS
  • Loyal Jones 1
  • David Williams 3
  • Grace Edwards 5
  • Charlotte Ross 7
  • James Gifford 11
  • I. HEREAFTER EFFECTS ON THE HERE AND NOW:
  • RELIGION AND REGION
  • Passing Over Yonder, Howard Dorgan 14
  • II. GOVERNMENT AND TECHNOLOGY:
  • CHANGE AND EFFECT ON A REGION
  • Some Thoughts on Science and Technology
  • in Appalachia, Ron Willoughby 24
  • III. CAPITALISM AND COAL: A REASSESSMENT
  • Capitalism, Patriarchy and "Mens Work": The
  • System of Control of Production
  • in Coal Mining, Mike Yarrow 29
  • IV. WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • ENDURING IMAGES OF APPALACHIA
  • Early Regional Photographers: Margaret Morley and
  • William Barnhill in Western North Carolina,
  • Richard Straw 48
  • V. JOCKS AND JUNKETS: COME PLAY AND STAY
  • Sports and Play in Southern Appalachia:
  • A Tentative Appraisal, Robert J. Higgs 57
  • Appalachian Documentaries: Hyping the Myth,
  • Sharyn McCrumb 68
  • Appalachia: A Tourist Attraction?,
  • Melinda Bollar Wagner, Lynn Batley, Kai Jackson,
  • Bill O'Brien, Liz Throckmorton 73
  • VI. BEFORE THE YELLOW BUSES: THE QUEST
  • FOR EDUCATION
  • Settlement School Goes to the People: Pine Mountain
  • School's Community Centers at Big Laurel
  • and Line Fork, 1919-1940, Nancy Forderhase 88
  • VII. ISSUES OF THEORY AND METHOD
  • IN REGIONAL RESEARCH
  • Class and Gender: New Theoretical Priorities in
  • Appalachian Studies, Sally Ward Maggard 100
  • Beyond the "Traditional Mountain Subculture":
  • A New Look at Pre-Industrial Appalachia,
  • Mary Beth Pudup 114
  • VIII. ETHNICITY AND MOBILITY
  • Blacks: An Invisible Institution in Appalachia?,
  • Wilburn Hayden 128
  • Moving On: Recent Patterns of Appalachian
  • Migration, Philip Obermiller and Robert Oldendick 148
  • IX. FREE AT LAST?: VIEW OF
  • APPALACHIAN HISTORY
  • Impact of the Company Town on
  • Traditional Life, Dean Herrin 166
  • X. REALITIES AND MYTHS: MOUNTAIN POLITICS
  • Hubbard's Branch of Mill Creek-1964-1984:
  • Twenty Years After the War On Poverty,
  • Warren Brunner and Tom Boyd 175.