The Interrelationships of Land, Culture and Heritage: The Gullah Geechee Communities of the Southeastern United States. In Taylor, Ken, Archer St Clair and Nora Mitchell (eds), Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F15%3A64800" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/15:64800 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315813226" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315813226</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315813226" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781315813226</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Interrelationships of Land, Culture and Heritage: The Gullah Geechee Communities of the Southeastern United States. In Taylor, Ken, Archer St Clair and Nora Mitchell (eds), Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions
Original language description
As direct descendants of Africans that were brought to the United States and enslaved for generations, today the Gullah Geechee people reside in a 30 mile coastal band along the South-eastern United States. From North Carolina to Florida numerous small communities retain a culture that includes not only a distinctive language, arts, crafts, cuisine and music, but also a unique response to the environment resulting in a Gullah Geechee cultural landscape. The Gullah Geechee culture has been studied by academics interested in a vast array of topics including the African origins of Gullah Geechee basket-making craft and its transfer to the South Atlantic coast, connections between traditions and the cultivation of rice on coastal plantations, and the ecological conditions of the coast and its impact on the basketmaking tradition. However, an understanding of the relationship between the Gullah Geechee people and their environment has not been revealed to any depth, nor ways in which they h
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LH11069" target="_blank" >LH11069: Analysis of the development of historical landscape patterns,the possibilities of protecting these patterns and making them accessible for eco-tourism</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions
ISBN
9780415744058
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
109-128
Number of pages of the book
250
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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