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Title

Signifying serpents and Mardi Gras runners : representing identity in selected Souths / edited by Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Ray, R. Celeste.
• Lassiter, Luke E.
• Southern Anthropological Society.

Description

x, 126 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ; no. 36

Uniform Title

Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ; no. 36.

Subject

• Marginality, Social > Southern States > Case studies
• Southern States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Case studies

Note

• Selected papers presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society held in Nashville, Tenn. in March 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter -- Signifying Serpents: Hermeneutic Change in Appalachian Pentecostal Serpent Handling / Keith G. Tidball and Christopher P. Toumey -- Making a Show for the People: Cajun Mardi Gras as Public Display / Carolyn E. Ware -- Louisiana's Coonasses: Choosing Race and Class over Ethnicity / Shana Walton -- Ethnicity Affirmed: The Haliwa-Saponi and the Dance, Culture, and Meaning of North Carolina Powwows / C. S. Everett and Marvin Richardson -- Walking the Line between Alternative Interpretations in Heritage Education and Tourism: A Demonstration of the Complexities with an Appalachian Coal Mining Example / Mary B. LaLone -- Africans at Snee Farm Plantation: Informing Representations of Plantation Life at a National Heritage Site / Antoinette Jackson -- Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns / Luke Eric Lassiter.

ISBN

• 082032471X (alk. paper)
• 0820324728 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002012605

OCLC

• ocm50410503
• SCSB-4337274

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries