Dodging alligators, rattlesnakes, and backyard docks: A political ecology of sweetgrass basket-making and conservation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, USA

GeoJournal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 383-399

  Hurley, Patrick T ^a   Halfacre, Angela C ^b  

^a URSINUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amenity migration; Conservation and development; First world political ecology; Gullah and sweetgrass basket making; Lowcountry South Carolina; Rural gentrification

Indexed keywords

AMENITY MIGRATION; CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT; GULLAH AND SWEETGRASS BASKET-MAKING; POLITICAL ECOLOGY; SOUTH CAROLINA;

CONSERVATION; LAND USE; RURAL AREAS;

ECOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMENITY; ART; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CULTURAL TRADITION; ETHNOPOLITICS; GENTRIFICATION; LAND TENURE; NATURAL RESOURCE; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROPERTY RIGHTS; PUBLIC ACCESS; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT;

LOWCOUNTRY; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ALLIGATORINAE; CROTALUS; HIEROCHLOE;

EID: 79960562446     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-009-9276-7     Document Type: Article

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