Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social HistoryKatherine Scott Sturdevant shows you how to use social history -- the study of "ordinary people's everyday lives" -- to add depth, detail, and drama to your family's saga. Book jacket. |
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... folk culture . Knowing the difference , and especially knowing how to define folk will clarify your artifacts for you and open research doors . Material folk culture consists of the handmade artifacts that reflect traditional ways of ...
... folk culture . Knowing the difference , and especially knowing how to define folk will clarify your artifacts for you and open research doors . Material folk culture consists of the handmade artifacts that reflect traditional ways of ...
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... folk culture in your family history . Folklorists identify five categories of material folk artifacts : folk architecture , folk art , folk crafts , folk foodways , and folk costume . Together , these make up folk life.3 Generally , the ...
... folk culture in your family history . Folklorists identify five categories of material folk artifacts : folk architecture , folk art , folk crafts , folk foodways , and folk costume . Together , these make up folk life.3 Generally , the ...
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... folks were so elite that they left many primary records and have been the subject of numerous books . There is a publishing trend of family histories that are transcribed , collected letters and papers held together as a volume . Some ...
... folks were so elite that they left many primary records and have been the subject of numerous books . There is a publishing trend of family histories that are transcribed , collected letters and papers held together as a volume . Some ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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