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Consuming Appalachia: An Archaeology Of Company Coal Towns, Zada Komara
Consuming Appalachia: An Archaeology Of Company Coal Towns, Zada Komara
Theses and Dissertations--Anthropology
Material culture is an understudied aspect of social life in Appalachian Studies, the multi- disciplinary investigation of social life in the Appalachian region. Historically, material culture in the region has been largely studied for its semiotic properties, decoded as a tangible symbol of “a region apart,” lagging behind the rest of America in terms of moral, mental, economic, and social development. Critical material studies from archaeology and other disciplines paint a different picture, however, and construct a region as American as any other. This study utilizes discourse analysis of material rhetoric about Appalachia and archaeological and oral historical data from …
Book Review: Daniels, Jessie. White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, And Sexuality In White Supremacist Discourse. New York: Routledge, 1997. White Trash: Race And Class In America. Edited By Matt Wray And Annalee Newitz. New York: Routledge, 1997., Meredith Redlin
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
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