Up From These Hills - Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood

Informationen zum Autor Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. grew up on and around the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee during the 1930s and 1940s. He earned his engineering degree at North Carolina State College and worked for Alcoa throughout the world. Michael Lambert earned his doctorate in social anthropology from Harvard University and is currently associate professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both are enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Klappentext Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. grew up on and around the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee during the 1930s and 1940s. He earned his engineering degree at North Carolina State College and worked for Alcoa throughout the world. Michael Lambert earned his doctorate in social anthropology from Harvard University and is currently associate professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both are enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Zusammenfassung Provides a grounded! yet poignant! description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930s and 1940s in the mountains of western North Carolina and on a sharecropper's farm in eastern Tennessee. Leonard Carson Lambert paints a vivid picture of life on the reservation and off! documenting work! family life! education! religion! and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series PrefaceForethoughts by Michael LambertSmith-Lambert Family GenealogyRootsThe CoveTennesseeMentor SchoolMars HillGoing HomeNotes

Product details

• Authors: Leonard Carson Lambert, Leonard Carson Lambert Lambert, Leonard Carson/ Lambert Lambert, Michael Lambert
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780803235366
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-3536-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Indians of the Southeast (Pape; Indians of the Southeast; Indians of the Southeast (Pape
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology