A Handbook to Appalachia: an Introduction to the Region.1572334592 A handbook
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Appalachia West Virginia coal mining region known for its abysmal poverty. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 160] See : Poverty ; an introduction to the region. Ed. by Grace Toney Edwards et al. University of Tennessee Press The University of Tennessee Press (or UT Press), founded in 1940, is a university press that is part of the University of Tennessee. External link
2006 279 pages $19.95 Paperback F106 For general readers and high-school or undergraduate students, contributors from a wide range of academic disciplines and artistic genres provide overviews of the Appalachian Mountain region in the eastern US. Their perspectives include cultural diversity, natural resources and the environment, education, folklife Folklife is an extension of, and often an alternate term for the subject of, folklore. The term gained usage in the United States in the 1960s from its use by such folklore scholars as Don Yoder and Warren Roberts, who wished to recognize that the study of folklore goes beyond oral , religion, literature, and Appalachians outside the region. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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