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Author : Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler
Publisher : august house
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 087483032X
A DELIGHTFUL COLLECTION OF YARNS TOLD SIMPLY AND ELOQUENTLY BY MOUNTAIN FOLKS FOR WHOM HUMOR IS A WAY OF LIFE.
Author : Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler
Publisher : august house
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0874834112
"Packed with humorous jokes, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and songs ... this collection is thick with artifacts of Southern wit."--Back cover.
Author : Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0804102996
Gathers humorous anecdotes from the Appalachians about religion, doctors, lawyers, school, politics, farming, and alcohol
Author : Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler
Publisher : august house
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0874830834
Presents a collection of jokes and stories from Appalachia dealing with such topics as animals, city folks, politicians, religion, and old age.
Author : Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler
Publisher : august house
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0874835321
Here are 300 jokes and stories heard on porch swings, in barber shops, corner cafes, and beauty parlors, told by famous and common alike, with chapters on marriage, aging, work, education, politics, and sports. Celebrities, everyday folks, and students of the Clinton County Elementary School in Clinton County, Kentucky serve up a feast of jokes and stories from oral traditions.
Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780299213534
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
Author : Hans Warren
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0299209806
In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.
Author : Robert J. Higgs,Michael Braswell
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0865549230
An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a growing number of scholars that Sports are a new religion. The last few years have seen a spate of books that might be classified by a genre called "Sports Apologetics," that is, arguments defending or celebrating in one way or another the familiar and ongoing alliance in America between sports and religion. Recently, claims have been made by scholars that sports are an authentic religion in and of themselves. They make this startling assertion not by showing connections with the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, or Moses, but by parallels between the rites of modern games and those of preliterate man that were "religious" in nature because they were designed to propitiate powers and to ward off evil for the tribes employing them. In this evocative book, Higgs and Braswell suggest that while sports may often be good things, they are not inherently divine. They do not focus on wide-spread abuse in sports as evidence for their counterargument. Rather, they question the use of mythological parallels from prehistory as justification for viewing sports as a religion.
Author : Michael Ann Williams
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628468960
The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events, including the Cherokee Removal of the 1830s and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park a century later. This book surveying the rich folklife of this special place in the American South offers a view of the culture as it has been defined and changed by scholars, missionaries, the federal government, tourists, and people of the region themselves. Here is an overview of the history of a beautiful landscape, one that examines the character typified by its early settlers, by the displacement of the people, and by the manner in which the folklife was discovered and defined during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here also is an examination of various folk traditions and a study of how they have changed and evolved.
Author : Carl Lindahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1045 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317477228
This two-volume collection of folktales represents some of the finest examples of American oral tradition. Drawn from the largest archive of American folk culture, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, this set comprises magic tales, legends, jokes, tall tales and personal narratives, many of which have never been transcribed before, much less published, in a sweeping survey. Eminent folklorist and award-winning author Carl Lindahl selected and transcribed over 200 recording sessions - many from the 1920s and 1930s - that span the 20th century, including recent material drawn from the September 11 Project. Included in this varied collection are over 200 tales organized in chapters by storyteller, tale type or region, and representing diverse American cultures, from Appalachia and the Midwest to Native American and Latino traditions. Each chapter begins by discussing the storytellers and their oral traditions before presenting and introducing each tale, making this collection accessible to high school students, general readers or scholars.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X030297343
Author : Kate C. McLean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190095949
"As I sat down to write this chapter about the use of life story methods for capturing cultural-historical aspects of LGBTQ+ identity development, I was transported back in time... It was a hot summer day in 2004. I had travelled back from the "big city" where I was attending university to visit my family. This was my first summer away from home. At that moment, my family and I sat in the parking lot of a diner, having just finished breakfast at a local greasy spoon-a ritualistic send off before I started my four-hour return drive. In those moments, our car felt unusually cramped. My dad was in the back seat with me, my mom and brother in the front. I didn't have much of an appetite that morning knowing that in mere minutes, I would come out to my family as gay. On our way out of the restaurant, walking to our separate cars, I somehow managed to muster up the courage to tell my family there was something important I wanted them to know. So, there I was, in the backseat of the car with a message for my family. Looking back on it, the message was more like an ultimatum. They could learn to love this new version of me, as I had done, or our routine "see you later" might be a "goodbye." This is the beginning of my story-both my coming out story and, in some ways, my life story. Thankfully, my family is still an important part of this story"--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : IND:30000092806532
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : UVA:X006096770
Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078808030
"This bibliography of books, articles, monographs, and dissertations features more than 4,700 entries, divided into twenty-four subject areas such as activism and protest; Appalachian studies; arts and crafts; community culture and folklife; education; environment; ethnicity, race and identity; health and medicine; media and stereotypes; recreation and tourism; religion; and women and gender. Two indexes conclude the bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
