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- Presents a collection of new data completed as a National Park Study (#GRSM-01120) under the auspices of a Great Smoky Mountains National Park Research Permit (#GRSM-2012-SCI-1120)
- Combines statistical and observational data with oral and regional history to paint a fuller picture of an Appalachian community
- Presents a multidisciplinary perspective drawing upon sociology, archaeology, folklore, and Appalachian history
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In one of the few studies to draw upon cemetery data to reconstruct the social organization, social change, and community composition of a specific area, this volume contributes to the growing body of sociohistorical examinations of Appalachia. The authors herein reconstruct the Cades Cove community in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, USA, a mountain community from circa 1818 to 1939, whose demise can be traced to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. By supplementing a statistical analysis of Cades Cove’s twenty-seven cemeteries, completed as a National Park Study (#GRSM-01120), with ethnographic examination, the authors reconstruct the community in detail to reveal previously overlooked social patterns and interactions, including insight into the death culture and death-lore of the Upland South. This work establishes cemeteries as window into (proxies of) communities, demonstrating the relevance of socio-demographic data presented by statistical and other analyses of gravestones for Appalachian Studies, Regional Studies, Cemetery Studies, and Sociology and Anthropology.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, USA
Gary S. Foster, William E. Lovekamp
About the authors
Gary S. Foster is Emeritus Chair and Professor at Eastern Illinois University, USA. At EIU, he taught environmental sociology and sociology of cemeteries. His recent publications have appeared in Illness, Crisis, and Loss; The Journal of Aging and Identity; The Florida Journal of Environmental Health; Markers; and The Association of Gravestone Studies Quarterly.
William E. Lovekamp is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Illinois University, USA. He is co-editor of the book Social Vulnerability to Disasters, (2nd ed). His recent publications appear in the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters; The Association of Gravestone Studies Quarterly; Markers; Teaching Sociology; and The Journal of Criminal Justice Education. He is also producer of the documentary called Nature's Fury and the Human Spirit.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cemeteries and the Life of a Smoky Mountain Community
Book Subtitle: Cades Cove Under Foot
Authors: Gary S. Foster, William E. Lovekamp
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23295-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23294-8Published: 16 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23295-5Published: 04 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 173
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Area Studies, Social Anthropology, Cultural Geography, US History, Regional Development, Cultural Management