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The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events, including the Cherokee Removal of the 1830s and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park a century later. This book surveying the rich folklife of this special place in the American South offers a view of the culture as it has been defined and changed by scholars, missionaries, the federal government, tourists, and people of the region themselves. Here is an overview of the history of a beautiful landscape, one that examines the character typified by its early settlers, by the displacement of the people, and by the manner in which the folklife was discovered and defined during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here also is an examination of various folk traditio

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• Celý názov: Great Smoky Mountains Folklife
• Autor: Michael Ann Williams
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 277
• EAN: 9780878057924
• ISBN: 0878057927
• ID: 04751422
• Nakladateľ: University Press of Mississippi
• Hmotnosť: 426 g
• Rozmery: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. September 1995

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