"The Way It Is": Land Preservation and the Culture of White Wealth in Lyme, Connecticut.
This essay is a critical folklore study of the culture of White wealth and its impact upon land preservation practices in the town of Lyme, Connecticut. On the one hand, it seeks to provide an example of research into White elite culture that Anand Prahlad recently called for in folklore studies. On...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Folklore Research Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 39 - 85 |
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Jan-Apr2024
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