Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia 9780807854938, 9780807828243, 0807828246, 080785493x, 2003010305

Folk Practices in North Mexico: Birth Customs, Folk Medicine, and Spiritualism in the Laguna Zone 9781477304358

The Mexican folkways described in this monograph, of scientific interest to anthropologists, will fascinate laypeople as

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Folk-Songs of the Southern United States 9780292772700

“The spirit of balladry is not dead, but slowly dying. The instincts, sentiments, and feelings which it represents are i

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A Fire in Appalachia 9781393199182

My name is Emmanuel Dimitri Foko Tito, but I go by Dimi, or Square Root, or Sena, or Posterchild. I was born and raised

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Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa 9781329807143

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Contributions to the History of Syriac Folk-Medicine 9781463231262

A collection of Syriac medical remedies, from a manuscript dated 1888; the origin is uncertain; the inscription mentions

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American Folk Medicine: A Symposium [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520336773

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s missio

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Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920 0807812935, 9780807812938

Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The au

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Marijuana in the "Third World": Appalachia, U.S.A. 9781685852757

Explores the nature, extent, and consequences of the cultivation of marijuana in the United States, focusing principally

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City Folk and Country Folk 9780231544504

An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a satire of Russia’s aristocratic

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Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film 0820353361, 9780820353364

Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the t

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