Lord I'm Coming Home: Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina

by John Forrest

Book Overview

Lord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By menas of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aesthetic to be an "everyday experience and not some rarefied and pure behavior reserved for an artistic elite."

The opening chapter of the book is a vivid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501727842
• ISBN13: 9781501727849
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher