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When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands

When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands

Paperback

Series: Brown Thrasher Books

AnthropologyBlack American StudiesGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0820323934
ISBN13: 9780820323930
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Jan 7 2004
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
When Roots Die celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of Brer Rabbit, records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years.

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Black American Studies