The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia /

The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia /

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Author / Creator:McKay, Ian, 1953-
Imprint:Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1994.
Description:xvii, 371 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia.
Folklorists -- Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia -- Folklore -- Social aspects.
Nova Scotia -- Social life and customs.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10515547
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Other authors / contributors:American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN:0773511792
9780773511798
0773512489
9780773512481
9780773535367
0773535365
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: A Postcard from the "Shore of Songs"
  • 1. The Idea of the Folk
  • 2. Helen Creighton and the Rise of Folklore
  • 3. Mary Black and the Invention of Handicrafts
  • 4. "O, So True & Real Like the Sea & the Rocks": The Folk and the Pursuit of the Simple Life
  • 5. The Folk under Conditions of Postmodernity
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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