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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Upper Cumberland Country

Upper Cumberland Country

Montell, William Lynwood

Paperback

Series: Folklife in the South Series

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0878056319
ISBN13: 9780878056316
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Mississippi
Published: Aug 1 1993
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.92 Depth: 9.94
Language: English
Tucked between Appalachia and the Deep South, the Upper Cumberland region straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee line along the banks of the Cumberland River. Here, dating from the days of the nation's earliest history, is one of America's richest repositories of folklife. Rather than revealing an artifact, however, this comprehensive study of the Upper Cumberland reveals a living tradition whose roots in the past continue to nourish the present.

Documented here in descriptive text, photographs, and interviews are varieties of folk cultural expression in music, architecture, crafts, schools, religious life, folk medical practices, and customs surrounding birth, puberty, marriage, and death. Upper Cumberland Country explores the spectrum of folklore from yesterday and today--from pioneer life and early folk architecture to teens cruising and women deer hunters. In a region filled with relics, modern voices from the Upper Cumberland speak directly of the living traditions that give t

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