| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture. By Charles Joyner. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xvi, 361 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-252-01521-5. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-252-06772-X.)

This collection of sixteen essays—eight of them new—by the folklorist and historian Charles Joyner concerns both the craft of understanding culture and the particular folk culture of the American South. Joyner is perhaps best known for his book Down by the Riverside (1984), which has become a classic for the way in which it located in a single slave community the patterns not only of African folkways but also those of a new creole culture. . . .

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