Signifying serpents and Mardi Gras runners
Subtitle: representing identity in selected Souths
By: edited by Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter.
Contributors: Ray, R. Celeste.; Lassiter, Luke E.; Southern Anthropological Society.
Series: Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ;; no. 36
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Marginality, Social -- Southern States -- Case studies.; Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Selected papers presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society held in Nashville, Tenn. in March 2001.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter vii; title: Signifying Serpents: Hermeneutic Change in Appalachian Pentecostal Serpent Handling; title: Keith G. Tidball and Christopher P. Toumey 1; title: Making a Show for the People: Cajun Mardi Gras as Public Display; title: Carolyn E. Ware 19; title: Louisiana's Coonasses: Choosing Race and Class over Ethnicity; title: Shana Walton 38; title: Ethnicity Affirmed: The Haliwa-Saponi and the Dance, Culture, and Meaning of North Carolina Powwows; title: C. S. Everett and Marvin Richardson 51; title: Walking the Line between Alternative Interpretations in Heritage Education and Tourism: A Demonstration of the; title: Complexities with an Appalachian Coal Mining Example; title: Mary B. LaLone 72; title: Africans at Snee Farm Plantation: Informing Representations of Plantation Life at a National Heritage Site; title: Antoinette Jackson 93; title: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns Luke Eric Lassiter 110; title: Contributors 125.