4. American Cultural Geography and Folklife

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Folklife Studies in American Scholarship 1
5. 2. Folklife Study and Social Change 19
6. 3. Uses of the Artistic Past 27
7. 4. American Cultural Geography and Folklife 51
8. 5. Film Documentation of Folklife 71
9. 6. Folk Boats of Eastern French Louisiana 105
10. 7. Afro-American Coil Basketry in Charleston County, South Carolina: Affective Characteristics of an Artistic Craft in a Social Context 151
11. 8. The Whitaker-Waggoner Log House from Morgan County, Indiana 185
12. 9. Tollgate Lore from Upstate New York: A Contribution to Folk-Cultural Studies 209
13. 10. Ethnic Tensions in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to 1860 239
14. 11. Wishing in and Shooting in the New Year among the Germans in the Carolinas 257
15. 12. Morality in a Yoruba Ritual in Trinidad 281
16. Notes on the Contributors 293
17. INDEX 297