| Contents |
Opening the black box of landscape: examining Southern mountain concepts of place -- A dangerous, inhospitable place: environmental and historical background -- In the middle of nowhere: resident attitudes toward land -- A pretty primitive feeling: inhabitant attitudes toward land -- A deep relationship with the land: connecting inhabitants to land -- In your bones: a spiritual connection to land -- These special places: the ambiguous, anthropomorphic mountains -- Informant biographies. |
| Abstract |
"What is the 'something in these hills' that ties mountain families to family land in the southern Appalachians? This ethnographic examination challenges contemporary theory and explores two interrelated themes: the duality of the southern Appalachians as both a menacing and majestic landscape and the emotional relationship to family land characteristic of long-term residents of these mountains"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781469670270 |
| Genre/form | Ethnographies. |
| Genre/form | Ethnographies. |
| Genre/form | Études ethnographiques. |
| LCCN | 2022015996 |
| ISBN | 9781469670249 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469670240 |
| ISBN | 9781469670256 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469670259 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
