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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2017-01-25
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9781682260265
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN-10
1682260267
ISBN-13
9781682260265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228673462
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ozarks : an American Survival of Primitive Society
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Social Science
Book Series
Chronicles of the Ozarks Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-960150
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"In his invaluable and instructive introduction, Robert Cochran mentions that Randolph in fact had aspired to be a cultural anthropologist, in the holistic vein of Margaret Mead writing Coming of Age in Samoa , but had been rejected by Boas. In re-issuing Randolph's 1931 work, Cochran, as well as Brooks Blevins, the Chronicles of the Ozarks series general editor, could be seen as simply promoting their own interests in Ozarkiana. But the significance of this work goes well beyond any regional constraints. Despite Randolph's obvious Tylorian bias against the staying power of 'primitive' society, any folklorist reading his work would comprehend more fully the power of folklore's raw material. Our humanity in all its possibilities, good and bad and indifferent, vibrates in the narrative that people construct of their lives, through their actions, words, and beliefs. Collectors like Randolph understood that, and were able to transmit what they collected through their own superbly crafted narratives." --John Wolford, Journal of Folklore Research , August 2018, "Anything you can do to keep The Ozarks alive and in print is a gift to folklorists and regional writers. Randolph was a proud Ozarker and a fine, zesty writer, a wit, a charmer. The Ozarks is maybe his most enduring treasure. We need to be reminded how this rascal of a writer held forth on his favorite subject." --Roger Abrahams, author A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle's Book of Ballads
Dewey Decimal
917.67
Synopsis
Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described ""hack writer,"" he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects. In The Ozarks, originally published in 1931, we have Randolph's first book-length portrait of the people he would spend the next half-century studying., Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described "hack writer," he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, even as his essentially romantic identification with the region he first visited as the vacationing child of mainstream parents was encouraged by editors and tempered by his scientific training. In The Ozarks , originally published in 1931, we have Randolph's first book-length portrait of the people he would spend the next half-century studying. The full range of Randolph's interests--in language, in hunting and fishing, in folksongs and play parties, in moonshining--is on view in this book that made his name; forever after he was "Mr. Ozark," the region's preeminent expert who would, in collection after collection, enlarge and deepen his debut effort. With a new introduction by Robert Cochran, The Ozarks is the second entry in the Chronicles of the Ozarks series, a reprint series that will make available some of the Depression Era's Ozarks books. An image shaper in its day, a cultural artifact for decades to come, this wonderful book is as entertaining as ever.
LC Classification Number
F417.O9R22 2017
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