The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Volume 6: Ethnicity
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8078-5823-3
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Reihe: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Transcending familiar categories of ""black"" and ""white,"" this volume of ""The New Encyclopedia"" complicates and enriches our understanding of ""southernness"" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. Essays examine the ways people perform and maintain cultural identities through folklore, religious faith, dress, music, speech, cooking, and transgenerational tradition. Accessibly written and informed by the most recent research, this volume greatly expands upon the modest Ethnic Life section of the original Encyclopedia. Contributors describe 88 ethnic groups that have lived in the South from the Mississippian Period (1000-1600) to the present. They include 34 American Indian groups, as well as the many communities with European, African, and Asian cultural ties that came to the region after 1600. Southerners from all backgrounds are likely to find themselves represented here.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ray, Celeste

Wilson, Charles Reagan

Über Autor(innen)

Celeste Ray is associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She has published four previous books, including <i>Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South</i> (from the University of North Carolina Press).