"Storytellers," a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse and inventive as the tellers themselves.
Edited and introduced by John A. Burrison and selected from more than twenty years of recorded interviews conducted in the lower Southeast by folklore students, "Storytellers" brings together for the first time in one book a broad variety of tales told in voices of African American, Anglo-Saxon, and Native American...
"Storytellers," a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past...
A complete catalog of the Atlanta History Center s permanent folk art exhibition, this richly illustrated volume defines and documents the folk arts of the lower southeastern United States. The objects, crafting processes, and performances represented here illustrate the unique qualities of the community-learned traditional arts of the South. John A. Burrison examines a multitude of traditional art forms, many of which still thrive today. Intricately constructed miniatures of covered wagons, sorghum-syrup mills, and pottery workshops speak of a life of subsistence farming. Decorated...
A complete catalog of the Atlanta History Center s permanent folk art exhibition, this richly illustrated volume defines and documents the folk art...
Roots of a Region reveals the importance of folk traditions in shaping and expressing the American South. This overview covers the entire region and all forms of ex-pression-oral, musical, customary, and material. The author establishes how folklore pervades and reflects the region's economics, history (espe-cially the Civil War), race rela-tions, religion, and politics. He follows with a catalog of those folk-cultural traits-from food and crafts to music and story-that are distinctly southern. The book then explores the Native American and Old World sources of southern folk culture. Two...
Roots of a Region reveals the importance of folk traditions in shaping and expressing the American South. This overview covers the entire region and a...
Abundantly illustrated, "Brothers in Clay" tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition--the historical forces that shaped it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive. This pioneering book marked the first intensive study of a southern state's pottery heritage and the first major examination of a native Georgia art form. Drawing on interviews with practicing potters, John A. Burrison ranges widely in his coverage, providing discussions of the folk potters' contributions to Georgia life and their place in southern society; detailed explanations of...
Abundantly illustrated, "Brothers in Clay" tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition--the historical forces that shaped it and the f...
John Michael Vlach called Brothers in Clay "not only the best study of American stoneware pottery now available but also a fine model for the presentation and analysis of hand-based technologies." The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss noted, "Mr. Burrison has brought to this undertaking a sensitivity, a finesse, and a flair for description and analysis that entitle the book to a place among the classics of this type."From Mud to Jug--both a companion and sequel to Brothers in Clay--deepens and enriches Burrison's earlier study by focusing on the northeast corner of...
John Michael Vlach called Brothers in Clay "not only the best study of American stoneware pottery now available but also a fine model for the p...
