Ruth Underhill's intriguing memoir traces the story of her life, delving into the Depression, the famous anthropologists in her circle, and her fieldwork with a keen ethnographic eye. Underhill describes the Victorian society that first bound her and then ultimately enabled her …
"Ruth Underhill's intriguing memoir traces the story of her life, delving into the Depression, the famous anthropologists in her circle, and her fieldwork with a keen ethnographic eye. Underhill describes the Victorian society that first bound her and then ultimately enabled her…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: Setting the Stage: Antebellum and Civil War Western North Carolina -- CHAPTER TWO: Mountain Masters without Slaves: The Aftermath of Slavery, 1865-1867 -- CHAPTER THREE: Great Time for the Tories and Negroes: L…
"Nash analyzes the unfolding of Reconstruction in the mountain counties of southern Appalachia, focusing on the particular ways that region's patterns of development, relatively low levels of prewar slaveholding, political allegiances, histories of violence, etc., shaped the era…