"This volume of Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings seeks to grapple with these challenges head-on. The essays provide wide-ranging discussions of concrete problems, often with a focus on the Appalachian region."
"Hans A. Baer is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock. His research ... Blakely has served as proceedings editor
for the Southern Anthropological Society and as president of the society. Marshall
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"Christopher P. Toumey received his doctorate at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where he writes and teaches
about the anthropology of science. His first book, God's Own Scientists, is an
ethnography of the scientific creationist movement. Melinda Bollar Wagner is a
professor of anthropology and the associate chair of the Appalachian Studies
Program at Radford University in Radford, ..."
"An important anthology putting the leading topics in Southern anthropology in the context of the 1960s.Proceedings of the Southern Anthropological Society: No. 1, "Essays on Medical Anthropology" (1968), edited by Thomas Weaver, with contributions by Frank J. Essene, Thomas Weaver, Charles Hudson, Helen Phillips, Hazel Hitson Weidman, Dorothea C. Leighton, Nora F. Cline, Peter Goethals, Berton H. Kaplan, Alice H. Murphree, John G. Peck ..."
"These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how that community both regards itself and reveals itself to others. As editors Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter note in their introduction, such stakeholders are no longer just of the community itself but are now often "outsiders" - tourists, the mass media, and even anthropologists and folklorists. The setting of each study is a diff ..."
"An important anthology putting the leading topics in Southern anthropology in the context of the 1960s.Proceedings of the Southern Anthropological Society: No. 1, "Essays on Medical Anthropology" (1968), edited by Thomas Weaver, with contributions by Frank J. Essene, Thomas Weaver, Charles Hudson, Helen Phillips, Hazel Hitson Weidman, Dorothea C. Leighton, Nora F. Cline, Peter Goethals, Berton H. Kaplan, Alice H. Murphree, John G. Peck ..."