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  Cutting a ThousandSticks of Tobacco Makes a Boy a Man: Traditionalized Performances of Masculinity in Occupational Contexts

  Ann Ferrell; Pauline Greenhill, Editor; and Diane Tye, Editor

  In Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye examine how tradition and gender come together to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study.

  Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex/gender systems to question, investigate, or upset concepts like family, ethics, and authenticity. Individual essays consider myriad ...Read More

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  Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century

  Ann Ferrell

  Once iconic American symbols, tobacco farms are gradually disappearing. It is difficult for many people to lament the loss of a crop that has come to symbolize addiction, disease, and corporate deception; yet, in Kentucky, the plant has played an important role in economic development and prosperity. Burley tobacco—a light, ...Read More