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When roots die : endangered traditions on the Sea Islands / Patricia Jones-Jackson

Jones-Jackson, Patricia, 1946-1986

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1987

Online Ressource (xvii, 189 p.) : ill.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-183) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Jones-Jackson, Patricia : When roots die. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1987 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-8203-4241-2 (electronic bk.); 0-8203-4241-6 (electronic bk.)

1-280-49110-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-280-49110-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 9786613586339 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 6613586331 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-8203-0833-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-8203-0833-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-8203-2393-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-8203-0833-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 753978358 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

F277.B3

306.0975799 ; 306/.09757/99     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: POL038000 ; bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: SOC022000 ; bisacsh: SOC001000 ; bisacsh: POL 038000 ; bisacsh: SOC 022000 ; bisacsh: SOC 002010

LOC-SH: African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Sea Islands ; Sea Islands -- Social life and customs -- Sea Islands (S.C.) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Sea Islands -- Schwarze -- Gullah -- United States -- Sea Islands ; Sea Islands Creole dialect ; African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs ; Sea Islands -- Social life and customs

Electronic books ; Sea Islands ; United States ; Sea Islands ; Sea Islands (S.C.) ; Moeurs et coutumes ; Schwarze ; Gullah ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; African Americans ; Social life and customs ; Manners and customs ; Sea Islands Creole dialect ; Volkskunde ; Langues créoles anglaises ; États-Unis ; Sea Islands (S.C.) ; Noirs ; États-Unis ; Sea Islands (S.C.) ; Moeurs et coutumes ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy

Social history and organization -- Folk literature -- Texts -- Language.

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This book celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of "Brer Rabbit," records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years