TY - BOOK
T1 - Cemeteries and the Life of a Smoky Mountain Community: Cades Cove Under Foot.
AU - Foster, Gary S.
AU - Lovekamp, William E
N1 - Authors: Foster, Gary, Lovekamp, William 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
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - cemetery
KW - national park
KW - cades cove
KW - smoky mountains
KW - sociology
UR - https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030232948
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-23295-5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-23295-5
M3 - Book
BT - Cemeteries and the Life of a Smoky Mountain Community: Cades Cove Under Foot.
ER -