"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...beyond stereotypes and gain an understanding of the interconnections between the motivations, perceptions, and practices of a group of people.4Karl G. Heider, Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film, 4th ed....
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...American political sociologist John Gaventa initiated a videotape conversation between rank and file coal miners in South Wales and Appalachia. Attending Oxford University with filmmaker Richard Greatrex, Gaventa initially documented...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...in an emerging era of global fan culture. Comentale's discussion is framed by a dubious comparison to Dadaist art of Marcel Duchamp. "Whereas Duchamp lifts trash into a new context,...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
Red Dirt
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Oakland Cemetery
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Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...a hard time beginning in a plural voice. Also, his voice has previously appeared on the Southern Spaces blog. go film as part of my fieldwork. I propped myself up...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...experiences are the center’s exhibitions, books, awards, radio programming, multimedia production, fieldwork projects, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In addition to his work at CDS, Tom Rankin is...
"Aint that Something?"
...behind the family's home place. Her grandmother is the most stable, and heroic, member of the family. An illustration of Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly in Debra Granik's film adaptation...