"I Still Have the Old Tradition": The co-production of sweetgrass basketry and coastal development

Geoforum

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 638-649

  Grabbatin, Brian ^a,b   Hurley, Patrick T ^a,c   Halfacre, Angela ^a,d  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c URSINUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^d FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contemporary subsistence; Coproduction; Gullah; Non timber forest products; Political ecology; South Carolina

Indexed keywords

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL TRADITION; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; EMPLOYMENT; GENTRIFICATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING; URBANIZATION;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

HIEROCHLOE;

EID: 80052301298     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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