| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland. Ed. by Michael E. Birdwell and W. Calvin Dickinson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. xii, 369 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2309-7.)

The area drained by the upper reaches of the Cumberland River in Appalachian Kentucky and Tennessee has been put on the academic map by studies of its oral history and folklore by William Lynwood Montell and its social history by Jeanette Keith. Both are contributors to this collection of essays by fourteen scholars on the history and culture of the upper Cumberland. Most of the contributors are historians, but the volume includes work by practitioners in English, folklore, and geology. Topics include aspects of material culture such as caves and hot springs, burial stones, houses, and building styles. Chapters on nonmaterial culture survey religion, folk legends, arts and crafts, moonshining, literature, music, tourism, and even nudism, at least the sort practiced at a local naturalist resort.

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