When Roots Die : Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Brown Thrasher Books
ISBN-10
0820323934
ISBN-13
9780820323930
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Imprint
University of Georgia Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 7th, 2004
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
331 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.50 cms
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Patricia Jones-Jackson celebrates and preserves the Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, she describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years.
When Roots Die celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of "Brer Rabbit," records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years.
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