Lord I'm Coming Home Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina

Lord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aest...

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Main Author: Forrest, John (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1988
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