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#37 #37, 2004

Linguistic Diversity in the South
Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology

Edited by Margaret Bender

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 37
Christopher P. Toumey, Executive Editor

2004

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Acknowledgments                                                                             vii

Introduction: Power and Belief in Southern Language
Margaret Bender                                                                               1

Dialect Awareness in Community Perspective
Walt Wolfram                                                                                  15

Multilingualism in the South: A Carolinas Case Study
Blair A. Rudes                                                                                  37

Defining Appalachian English
Kirk Hazen and Ellen Fluharty                                                       50

Constructing Ethnolinguistic Groups:
A Sociolinguistic Case Study
Christine Mallinson                                                                         66

Language and Culture Pullout Program:
Seminole Initiatives to Preserve Language
Susan E. Stans and Louise Gopher                                                 80

Medicine-Making Language among the Muskogee:
The Effects of Changing Attitudes
Pamela Innes                                                                                   90

Not with a Southern Accent:
Cajun English and Ethnic Identity
Shana Walton                                                                                 104

Identity, Hybridity, and Linguistic Ideologies of
Racial Language in the Upper South
Anita Puckett                                                                                 120

Contributors                                                                                    139

 

#36 #36, 2003

Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners:                               Representing Identity in Selected Souths

Edited by Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 36
Michael V. Angrosino, Series Editor

2003

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Introduction
Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter                                                vii

Signifying Serpents: Hermeneutic Change in
Appalachian Pentecostal Serpent Handling
Keith G. Tidball and Christopher P. Toumey                                  1

Making a Show for the People:
Cajun Mardi Gras as Public Display
Carolyn E. Ware                                                                            19

Louisiana's Coonasses: Choosing Race and
Class over Ethnicity
Shana Walton                                                                                 38

Ethnicity Affirmed: The Haliwa-Saponi and the
Dance, Culture, and Meaning of North Carolina
Powwows
C.S. Everett and Marvin Richardson                                             51

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                                                                             72

Africans at Snee Farm Plantation: Informing
Representations of Plantation Life at a National
Heritage Site                                            
Antoinette Jackson                                                                        93

Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns
Luke Eric Lassiter                                                                        110

Contributors                                                                                   125

 

#35 #35, 2002

Southern Indians and Anthropologists

CULTURE, POLITICS, AND IDENTITY

Edited by Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach


Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 35
Michael V. Angrosino, Series Editor

2002

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Introduction
Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach                                               1

Powhatan Identity in Anthropology and
Popular Culture (and Vice Versa)
Frederic W. Gleach                                                                          5

In the Service of Native Interests:
Archaeology for, of, and by Cherokee People
Brett Riggs                                                                                       19

Considerations of Context, Time, and Discourse
in Identity Politics for Indians of the Carolinas
Patricia Barker Lerch                                                                       31

Voices from the Periphery:
Reconstructing and Interpreting Post-Removal
Histories of the Duck Town Cherokees
Betty J. Duggan                                                                               43

Curating Our Past: Museum Direction Driven
by Tribal Perspectives
Russell G. Townsend                                                                       69

The Gendering of Langue and Parole:
Literacy in Cherokee
Margaret C. Bender                                                                        77

Gender Reciprocity and Ritual Speech
among the Yuchi
Jason Baird Jackson                                                                       89

The Twentieth-Century Conservators
of the Cherokee Sacred Formulas
Willard Walker                                                                              107

Stress and Coping among Chickasaw Indian Fathers:
Lessons for Indian Adolescents and Their Counselors
in Treatment for Substance Abuse
Lisa J. Lefler                                                                                  115


The American Indian Fatherhood Project:
The Impact of Incarceration on Chickasaw Fathers
Donald Shannon                                                                            124

Emahakv Vpelofv (Teaching Hammock):
Developing a University/Native American Partnership
Susan E. Stans and Louise Gopher                                                 134

Contributors                                                                                  149

 

#34 #34, 2001

Latino Workers In the Contemporary South

Edited by Arthur D. Murphy,
Colleen Blanchard, and Jennifer A. Hill


Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 34

Michael V. Angrosino, Series Editor


2001

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Introduction: From Patrones and Caciques
to Good Ole Boys
Deborah A. Duchon and Arthur D. Murphy                                      1

Ethnicity: Consciousness, Agency, and Status
in the World System
Kathryn A. Kozaitis                                                                          10

Comparative Perspectives on International Migration:
Illegals or “Guest Workers” in the American South?
Eric C. Jones and Robert E. Rhoades                                                23

How Many Are There? Ethnographic Estimates
of Mexican Women in Atlanta, Georgia
Martha W. Rees                                                                               36

Industry and Immigration in Dalton, Georgia
James D. Engstrom                                                                           44

Mexican Places in Southern Spaces: Globalization,
Work, and Daily Life in and around the North Georgia
Poultry Industry
Greig Guthey                                                                                   57

Hospitality and Hostility: Latin Immigrants
in Southern Georgia
John D. Studstill and Laura Nieto-Studstill                                       68

Another Day in the Diaspora: Changing Ethnic
Landscapes in South Florida
David Griffith, Alex Stepick, Karen Richman, Guillermo
Grenier, Ed Kissam, Allan Burns, and Jeronimo Camposeco            82

Language and the Migrant Worker Experience
in Rural North Carolina Communities
Jack G. Dale, Susan Andreatta, and Elizabeth Freeman                    93

Immigration and the Organization of the Onshore Oil Industry:
Southern Louisiana in the Late 1990s
Katherine M. Donato, Carol L. Bankston, and Dawn T.
Robinson                                                                                        105


Heading South: Why Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
in Brownsville, Texas, Cross the Border into Mexico
Kathleen M. Murphy                                                                      114

A New Destination for an Old Migration: Origins, Trajectories,
and Labor Market Incorporation of Latinos in Dalton, Georgia
Victor Zúñiga and Rubén Hernández-León                                     126

The Contributors                                                                           137

 

#33

#33, 2000

Communities and Capital: Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization

Edited by Thomas W. Collins and John D. Wingard

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 33
Michael V. Angrosino, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Introduction                                                                                          1
Thomas W. Collins                                                             

Finding Alternatives to Privatizing the Resource:
Community-Focused Management for Marine Fisheries                        5
John D. Wingard

Down on the Clam Farm: Aquaculture, Privatization,
and Sacred Space in the Core Banks Shellfish Lease
Controversy, North Carolina                                                              30
Barbara J. Garrity-Blake

Licenses and Livelihoods:  Changing Fishing Economy
in a Malay Village                                                                               40
Margaret W. Kedia

Grassroots Development Strategies in the
Azuero Peninsula of Panama                                                               52
John R. Bort and James C. Sabella

Local Stratagems, Global Spoils: Monopoly Power and
Contract Farming in the Belize Banana Industry                                   69
Mark Moberg

Marshalltown, Iowa, and the Struggle
for Community in a Global Age                                                          87
Mark A. Grey

Deindustrialization, Job Displacement,
and Contested Ideology of Work in a Southern Town                       101
Tara Skipper

The Periphery in the Center:
The View from Public Housing in Memphis                                       114
David T. Spangler

Challenging Market-Based Health Care Reforms in
New York City: Community Health Centers,
Public Hospitals, and Grassroots Advocates                                      129
Sara Collins

List of Contributors                                                                           149

#32

#32,  1999

Culture, Biology, and Sexuality

Edited by David N. Suggs and Andrew W. Miracle

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 32
Michael V. Angrosino, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Preface                                                                                              vii
David N. Suggs and Andrew W. Miracle

Human Sexuality: The Whole Is More than the Sum of
Its Parts                                                                                                1
Suzanne G. Frayser

Sexing Anthropology: Rethinking Sexual Culture,
Subjectivity, and the Method of Anthropological
Participant Observation                                                                      17
Gilbert Herdt

Theory and the Anthropology of Sexuality: Toward a
Holistic Anthropology in Practice                                                        33
David N. Suggs and Andrew W. Miracle

Talking Love or Talking Sex:  Culture’s Dilemma                                49
William Jankowiak

Faster, Farther, Higher: Biology and the Discourses
on Human Sexuality                                                                           64
Carol M. Worthman

Human Sexual Behavior and Evolution                                               76
Linda D. Wolfe

A Discussion of Culture, Biology, and Sexuality:
Towards Synthesis                                                                             86
Ernestine Friedl

APPENDIX: Sex the Invisible                                                            90
Ernestine Friedl

List of Contributors                                                                           109

 

#31

#31, 1998

Cultural Diversity in the U.S. South: Anthropological Contributions to a Region in Transition

Edited by Carole E. Hill and Patricia D. Beaver

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 31
Michael V. Angrosino, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Preface                                                                                           vii
Miles Richardson

Introduction: Southern Culture and Diversity--                                 
A Bridge to the Twenty-First Century                                                1
Carole E. Hill and Patricia D. Beaver

Contemporary Issues in Anthropological Studies 
of the American South                                                                      12
Carole E. Hill

The Early Historic Transformation of the                                       
Southeastern Indians                                                                         34
Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson

Uncovering the Trail of Ethnic Denial:                                    
Ethnicity in Appalachia                                                                      51
Patricia D. Beaver and Helen M. Lewis

Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs: Indian Identity                          
in the South                                                                                       69
Carmaleta L. Monteith

Cultures and Communities in the New Old South:                          
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants                                                        82
Gwen Kennedy Neville

Holding Hands: An American Struggle for Community                       93
Carol Stack

Latino Southerners: A New Form of Mestizaje                               104
Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Indochinese Resettlement and the Transformation                        
of Identities along the Alabama Gulf Coast                                      115
Mark Moberg and J. Stephen Thomas

Asian Adaptations in the American South                                        129
Choong Soon Kim

Urban Immigrants in the South: Recent Data                                        
and a Historical Case Study                                                            144     
Susan Greebaum

The Postmodern South: Racial Transformations                                  
and the Global Economy                                                                 164
Barbara Ellen Smith

Rehistoricizing Race, Ethnicity, and Class                                            
In the U.S. Southeast                                                                      179
Faye V. Harrison

Anthropology in the South and the Southern                                              
Anthropological Society: Diversity, the South,
Anthropology, and Culture                                                               190
James Peacock

List of Contributors                                                                          201

 

#30

#30, 1997

Practicing Anthropology in the South

Edited by James M. Tim Wallace

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 30
Michael V. Angrosino, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Introduction: Putting Anthropology into Practice in the 1990s                  1
James M. Tim Wallace

Well, Do They?  The New Applied Anthropology                                     
Twenty Years Later                                                                             13
Michael V. Angrosino

A Southern View of Organizations and Change:
Testifying to Theory                                                                              22
Andrew W. Miracle

Activist Praxis and Anthropological Knowledge                                     33
Mary K. Anglin

Barriers and Opportunities for Practicing Anthropology
in the Mississippi Delta (and Getting Paid to Do It)                                43
S. Bridget Ciaramitaro

Reflections of an “Outsider” Anthropologist                                          48
Christopher H. Walker

Social Marketing and Applied Anthropology:
A Practitioner’s View of the Similarities and Differences
between Two Research-Driven Disciplines                                            54
Christopher A. Brown

Applications in the Private Practice of Urban Planning                            65
Michael M. English

Praying with Creationists                                                                       74
Christopher P. Toumey

The Development of an Undergraduate Applied
Anthropology Training Program                                                             81
Susan Emley Keefe

The Appalachia Tourism Project: Applied Anthropology in
an Appalachian Coal Mining Town                                                        91
Mary B. LaLone

Teaching Practitioners Practical Anthropology:
A Course on the Rural South                                                              102
V. Richard Persico Jr. and Roger G. Branch

Drawing the Line between People and Power:
Taking the Classroom to the Community                                              109
Melinda Bollar Wagner, Shannon T. Scott, and Danny Wolfe

The Development of Clinically Applied Anthropology:
A Cautionary Tale                                                                               119
Sharon Glick Miller

Anthropology in the Practice of Medicine                                             127
Robert C. Morrow

Partisan Observation in the Formation of a Faculty Union:
The Challenge of Organizing in a Southern Urban University                 133
Hans A. Baer

Building Sustainable Development at Appalachian State                       142
Jefferson C. Boyer

Practicing Anthropology in the Carter Presidential Center                     155
Honggang Yang

Contributors                                                                                        161

#29

#29, 1996

Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution

Edited by Alvin W. Wolfe and Honggang Yang

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 29
Michael V. Angrosino, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Contributions of Anthropology to Conflict Resoultion                               1
Alvin W. Wolfe

Why Sikhs Fight                                                                                    11
Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

Mediation in the Caucasus                                                                     31
Paula Garb

ADR, Palau, and the Contribution of Anthropology                                47
Kevin Avruch and Peter W. Black

Waging Peace: The Psychological and Sociocultural
Dynamics of Positive Peace                                                                  64
Clayton A. Robarchek and Carol J. Robarchek

Labor Recruitment, Ethnicity, and Development:
Alternatives to Work-Force Conflict in Southern Belize                        81
Mark Moberg

Conflicts over the Commons in an American Suburb                            97
Honggang Yang

Harmony Ideology Works at the Mill                                                 119
Mary Schweitzer

The Limits of an Anthropology of Conflict: Loyalist and
Republican Paramilitary Organizations in Northern Ireland                  131
Ronnie Moore and Andrew Sanders

Epilogue: Agenda for Applied Research in Conflicts Resolution          144
Honggang Yang and Alvin W. Wolfe

Contributors                                                                                     151

 

#28

#28, 1995

Religion in the Contemporary South: Diversity, Community, and Identity

O. Kendall White Jr. and Daryl White, Editors

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 28
Mary W. Helms, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Introduction                                                                                           1
Daryl White and O. Kendall White, Jr.

PART 1: RITUAL AND COMMUNITY OF MEMORY

Speaking and Hearing (in Contrast to Touching
and Seeing) the Sacred                                                                        13
Miles Richardson

More Varieties of Religious Experience: Time and
Faith for Southern Catholics                                                                 23
Jon W. Anderson and Gwen Kennedy Neville

“Give Me That Old-Time Religion”: The Genealogy
and Cultural Politics of an Afro-Christian
Celebration in Halifax County, North Carolina                                      34
Faye V. Harrison

The Role of Christianity in the Snowbird
Cherokee Community                                                                          46
Sharlotte Neely

PART 2:  CONFERRED AND CHOSEN IDENTITIES

Attacking (Southern) Creationists                                                         59
Kary D. Smout            

Constructing Christian Hatred:  Anti-Catholicism,
Diversity, and Identity in Southern Religious Life                                   67
Gary W. McDonogh

Stranger in a Strange Land: The Non-Christian
as Alien in the South                                                                            79
Brenda G. Stewart

PART 3: COMMUNITY SUPPORT, CONTROL, AND IDENTITY

Christian Schools: Walking the Christian Walk
the American Way                                                                              89
Melinda Bollar Wagner

Ministering to the Working Class: Evangelical
Protestantism in Rural Appalachia                                                       97
Mary Anglin

A Spriitual Storefront Church in Nashville:
A Thaumaturgical Response to Racism and
Social Stratification in the New South                                                106
Hans A. Baer

“The Wind Blows, So Why Not Change?”
Tradition, Change, and Transformation
at Bulter Street Baptist Church                                                          117
Mona Taylor Phillips, Andrew Billingsley,
and Fleda Mask Jackson
 

Returning to the Source: Yoruba Religion
in the South                                                                                      124
Beatriz Morales

PART 4: INTEGRATING RELIGIOUS AND REGIONAL IDENTITIES

American Hinduism in the South: Social Identity
and Public Discourse                                                                         133
Michael V. Angrosino

Women in Congregations                                                                   140
Valerie Fennell

Rising Out of the Ashes:  An Exploration of One
Congregation’s Use of Southern Symbolism                                       149
Scott Lee Thumma                                                          

References                                                                                        159

Contributors                                                                                      169

 

#27

#27, 1994

Perspectives on the Southeast: Linguistics, Archaeology And Ethnohistory

Patricia B. Kwachka, Editor

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 27
Mary W. Helms, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Preface                                                                                                vii

Linguistic Provinces of  the Southeast at the Time
of  Columbus                                                                                          1
T. Dale Nicklas

Modeling Language Contact in the Prehistory of
The Southeastern United States                                                             14
Jack Martin

Mobilian Jargon in the “Prehistory” of
Southeastern North America                                                                 25
Emanuel J. Drechsel

The Art of War in the Sixteenth-Century Central
Mississippi Valley                                                                                 44
David H. Dye

Ethnic Identities and Cultural Change in the
Protohistoric Period of Eastern Arkansas                                              61
Michael P. Hoffman

Making the Connection:  Is It Possible to Link the
Koasati to an Archaeological Culture?                                                  71
Geoffrey Kimball

Where Did the Choctaw Come From?
An Examination of Pottery in the Areas Adjacent
to the Choctaw Homeland                                                                   80
Kenneth H. Carleton

Leadership Nomenclature Among Spanish
Florida Natives and Its Linguistic and
Associational Implications                                                                   94
John H. Hann

 

#26

#26, 1993

Images of the South: Constructing a Regional Culture on Film and Video

Karl G. Heider, Editor

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 26
Mary W. Helms, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Introduction                                                                                           1
Karl G. Heider

PART 1:  Fictions from the Studios

Paradise Lost: Louisiana as a Microcosm of the South
in Fictional and Documentary Films                                                       9
Ethelyn G. Orso

Religion and Representation in the Filmic South                                    24
Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong

Scenes from a Dream: (Nearly) Lost Images of Black
Entertainers                                                                                         55
Alex Albright

PART 2: Opportunities from the Archives

Ordinary Life in the Southern Appalachians, 1925-1940:
The Photographs of R. A. Romanes                                                    77
Max E. White

Constructing the Florida Seminole on Film, 1850-1950                       86
Patsy West

Moving Images of the Filmic South: Mining the WSB
Television Collection                                                                         103
John Edgar Reid, Jr.

Was It Not Real?  Democratizing Myth Through
Ken Burn’s The Civil War                                                                 112
James Peacock and Virginia Moore

 

#25

#25, 1992

African Americans in the South : Issues of Race, Class, and Gender

Hans A. Baer and Yvonne Jones, Editors

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 27
Mary W. Helms, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Foreword: The south in US and US in the South                                     vii
Johnnetta Cole

Introduction: Economic Survival, Health Maintenance,
and Religious Identity in the South                                                            1
Hans A. Baer and Yvonne Jones

African American Teen Pregnancy in the American South                       14
Annie S. Barnes

Mutual Aid Societies and Economic Development:
Survival Efforts                                                                                      26
Charles Williams, Jr., and Hilda J. B. Williams

Reproduction and Transformation of Health Praxis and
Knowledge Among Southern Blacks                                                      34
Carole E. Hill

Killing the Medical Self-Help Tradition Among African
Americans: The Case of Lay Midwifery in North Carolina,
1912-1983                                                                                           60
Holly F. Mathews

Community AIDS Education: Trials and Tribulations in
Raising Consciousness for Prevention                                                    79
Ira E. Harrison

In Search of Soul Food and Meaning: Culture, Food,
and Health                                                                                           94
Tony L. Whitehead

The Socio-Religious Development of the Church of God in Christ        111
Hans A. Baer

The Southern Origin of Black Judaism                                                 123
Merrill Singer

African American Mormons in the South                                             139
Daryl White and O. Kendall White

Epilogue                                                                                             154
Brett Williams

References                                                                                         161

Contributors                                                                                       179

 
#24

#24, 1991

Anthropology and Food Policy : Human Dimensions Of Food Policy in Africa and Latin America

Della E. McMillan, Editor
With the assistance of Jeanne Harlow

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 24
Mary W. Helms, Series Editor

The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London

Contents

Introduction                                                                                           1
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