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Becoming Human In The Land: An Introduction To The Special Issue Of Heritage: Landscapes, Drew Hubbell Mar 2018

Becoming Human In The Land: An Introduction To The Special Issue Of Heritage: Landscapes, Drew Hubbell

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

This introduction to the special issue of Landscapes theorizes the questions suggested by the theme, "Landscape: Heritage." Weaving personal narrative with literary criticism, cultural studies, human geography, and ecology, the essay examines the way humans become human by developing complex relationships with landscapes over time. As landscapes contain the physical traces of human habitation and development, certain narratives of human inhabitants are written and memorialized in and by those landscapes. The monumentalization of specific heritages leads to contests between human groups who require certain heritages to be memorialized, but not others. Greater awareness of one's humanity requires recovery of polyphonic …


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 42, No. 2, Wendell R. Zercher, Charles Greg Kelley, Robert P. Stevenson, Henry J. Kauffman, John W. Parsons, Roy Christman, Elwood Christman, Greg Huber Jan 1993

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 42, No. 2, Wendell R. Zercher, Charles Greg Kelley, Robert P. Stevenson, Henry J. Kauffman, John W. Parsons, Roy Christman, Elwood Christman, Greg Huber

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Charles E. Starry, Adams County Chair Maker
• Lewis Miller's Chronicle of York: A Picture of Life in Early America
• Family Anecdotes from a Georges Creek Home
• The Pennsylvania-German Schrank
• The Barns of Towamensing Township
• A Review of Robert F. Ensminger's The Pennsylvania Barn


Letter From Arthur Weaner To Alfred L. Shoemaker, April 23, 1958, Arthur Weaner Apr 1958

Letter From Arthur Weaner To Alfred L. Shoemaker, April 23, 1958, Arthur Weaner

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Arthur Weaner addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated April 23, 1958. Within, Weaner writes to inquire about terminology he uncovered in an 1890 sales bill referring to bees.


Letter From Arthur Weaner To Alfred L. Shoemaker, January 9, 1955, Arthur Weaner Jan 1955

Letter From Arthur Weaner To Alfred L. Shoemaker, January 9, 1955, Arthur Weaner

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

In this typed letter to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated January 9, 1955, Arthur Weaner responds to Shoemaker's inquiry about a particular brick end barn design. Weaner believes that such a design exists in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.