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 | | In what ways are families' understandings of themselves and of kinship linkages structured by enduring (or emergent) linkages with geographical site--such as cemeteries, current and former neighborhoods, former plantations, business districts, farms, and parks--and with spatial microenvironments--such as house interiors, yards and gardens, street corners, family plots, and specific trees? |
| | I am particularly intrigued by recent initiatives to reclaim local landscapes and the histories embedded within them, including family trips to cemeteries and old slave-based plantations, family geneological research into African-American and Native American kinship links in rural Georgia, and pilgrimages to the Carribean and Africa. |
| | In our work on The Newton County African-American Family Research Project, my students and I document and attempt to understand the roles played by narrative, story-telling, architecture, landscape, and ritual performance in the lives of African-American families in this Georgia county. |
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