Sense of Place : American Regional Cultures.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Regional Studies in American Folklore Scholarship -- Folklore and Reality in the American West -- Tornado Stories in the Breadbasket: Weather and Regional Identity -- One Reason God Made Trees": The Form and Ecology of the Barnegat Bay Sneakbox -- Mankind's Thumb on Nature's Scale: Trapping and Regional Identity in the Missouri Ozarks -- Regional Consciousness as a Shaper of Local History: Examples from the Eastern Shore -- Image and Identity in Oregon's Pioneer Cemeteries -- Carbon-Copy Towns? The Regionalization of Ethnic Folklife in Southern Illinois's Egypt -- A Regional Musical Style: The Legacy of Arnold Shultz -- Creative Constraints in the Folk Arts of Appalachia -- The Genealogical Landscape and the Southern Sense of Place -- Regional Culture Studies and American Culture Studies -- Notes -- Contributors.
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Regionalism-United States. Folklore-United States. United States-Social life and customs-20th century.