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A must read companion to Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders
This book is a wonderful telling of rural Appalachian stories in the same vein as Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders - though I liked it better than Kephart. The author, Olive Tilford Dargan, based her stories on her own experiences living in the region and was aware of Kephart's work. Where Kephart occasionally engages in cliche and negative stereotypes of women,...
Published on April 29, 2009 by Clark Mackey
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To your lowest understanding...
A narrow and terrible book. The author engaged in an endeavor to understand a culture to which she felt superior, obscuring from her any meaningful understanding of her subject. There is one great lesson in this book - objectivity is essential in understanding another culture - and this is a perfect example of what doesn't work. Reading this book is a waste of time...
Published 1 month ago by Carolina Kat
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A must read companion to Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders,
This review is from: From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks (Paperback)
This book is a wonderful telling of rural Appalachian stories in the same vein as Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders - though I liked it better than Kephart. The author, Olive Tilford Dargan, based her stories on her own experiences living in the region and was aware of Kephart's work. Where Kephart occasionally engages in cliche and negative stereotypes of women, Dargan tells stories that feel original and highlight dynamic female characters. The book is a delight with stories that make it hard to put down - very well crafted. I'm surprised to see it doesn't have any reviews.
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To your lowest understanding...,
By Carolina Kat "Carolina Kat" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks (Paperback)
A narrow and terrible book. The author engaged in an endeavor to understand a culture to which she felt superior, obscuring from her any meaningful understanding of her subject. There is one great lesson in this book - objectivity is essential in understanding another culture - and this is a perfect example of what doesn't work. Reading this book is a waste of time intellectually, and sadly, an insult to mountain culture it purports to explain.
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From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks by Olive Tilford Dargan (Paperback - September 30, 1998)
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