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Defining the Delta Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta
- Title
- Defining the Delta [electronic resource] : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta / edited by Janelle Collins.
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
- Fayetteville [Arkansas] : University of Arkansas Press, 2015.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 309 pages) :) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- Inspired by the Arkansas Review's "What Is the Delta?" series of articles, Defining the Delta collects fifteen essays from scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to describe and define this important region. Here are essays examining the Delta's physical properties, boundaries, and climate from a geologist, archeologist, and environmental historian. The Delta is also viewed through the lens of the social sciences and humanities--historians, folklorists, and others studying the connection between the land and its people, in particular the importance of agriculture and the culture of the area, especially music, literature, and food. Every turn of the page reveals another way of seeing the seven-state region that is bisected by and dependent on the Mississippi River, suggesting ultimately that there are myriad ways of looking at, and defining, the Delta.
- Uniform Title
- Defining the Delta (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- 1. Defining the Delta : a river, a floodplain, and geopolitical boundaries / Janelle Collins -- 2. A geologist's perspective on the Mississippi Delta / Randel Tom Cox -- 3. An archaeologist's perspective of the Lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye -- 4. An environmental historian's perspective on the Mississippi Delta / Mikko Saikku -- 5. Landscape, environment, and geography of the Mississippi River Delta Region / Fiona Davidson and Tom Paradise -- 6. The death-dealing delta : a climatological viewpoint / Mary Sue Passe-Smith -- 7. Sociodemographic snapshots of the Mississippi Delta / John J. Green, Tracy Greever-Rice, and Gary D. Glass Jr. -- 8. What is the Mississippi Delta? A historian's perspective / Jeannie M. Whayne -- 9. Politics in black and white : the Mississippi Delta / Seth C. McKee -- 10. The folklorist's Delta / William Clements -- 11. Mississippi moan : the blues music legacy of the Delta / William L. Ellis -- 12. Blues musicians in the Mississippi Delta : a photographic essay / William Ferris -- 13. Mississippi blues tourism : history, marketing strategies, and tourism goals / Stephen A. King -- 14. Contemporary women musicians in the Delta / L. Dyann Arthur -- 15. Heritage tourism in the Delta / Ruth A. Hawkins -- 16. What is the Delta from a foodways perspective? / Jennifer Jensen Wallach -- 17. The literature of the Delta / Lisa Hinrichsen.
- OCLC
- ssj0001575005
- Title
- Defining the Delta [electronic resource] : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta / edited by Janelle Collins.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Fayetteville [Arkansas] : University of Arkansas Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Collins, Janelle.Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: (DLC) 2015948063 1557286884 9781557286888