Gullah/Geechee cultural survival, negotiating family, land, and culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, by Lisa Lynelle Moore
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Gullah/Geechee cultural survival, negotiating family, land, and culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, by Lisa Lynelle Moore
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eng
Abstract
"Explores how Gullah/Geechee families on St. Helena Island in South Carolina are negotiating the challenges associated with sustaining traditions of family landownership and cultural identity in the face of commercial and residential development. This exploration considers the ways land has functioned as an anchor to Gullah/Geechee culture and family in the past and present. An examination of heirs property rights, a landowning condition that insures a collective of individuals are able to inherit land as a group, offers an opening to consider the ways people designate family."--Leaf iv
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Includes bibliographical references
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--California Institute of Integral Studies, 2008.
Main title
Gullah/Geechee cultural survival
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by Lisa Lynelle Moore
Sub title
negotiating family, land, and culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina
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Subject
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- Social life and customs
- Land use -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- Social aspects
- Saint Helena Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions
- Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- Social life and customs
- Land tenure -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island
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- Has instance1
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- Creator1
- Subject5
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- Social life and customs
- Land use -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- Social aspects
- Saint Helena Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions
- Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- Social life and customs
- Land tenure -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island