Appalachian Valley
By: by George L. Hicks.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Little Laurel Valley, N.C. -- Social life and customs
Notes: Bibliography: p. 109.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : studying the Little Laurel -- The Little Laurel : an overview. The Little Laurel Valley -- Settlements and community -- The pace of change -- Centralization and dispersal -- The pioneer past and recent change. Early settlement and the Civil War -- Agriculture -- Forest products -- Mining -- Life before World War II -- Changes in economic patterns -- Hillbillies and mountaineers -- Kinship and sex roles. Family and household -- Kinship obligations -- Stability and continuity -- Male and female -- Segregation by sex -- The ties that bind -- Land as place and property. Who owns the land? -- A moral right to land -- This country and this place -- Historical traditions and place -- The old home place -- Settlement and community. Family names -- Occupational specialty -- Moral reputation -- Blurring the separations -- From settlement to community -- The consolidated school -- Status and prestige -- Communication. Stores and storekeepers -- Stores as social arenas -- The ethic of neutrality. Attack by indirection -- Feuds and grudges -- Grudges in politics -- Election gambits -- Modern organizations in the valley -- Taciturnity and lack of emotion -- Beyond the valley. Markets and jobs outside the valley -- Attitudes toward outsiders -- Skirmishes in the war on poverty.