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

Authors

Ann Ferrell, Western Kentucky University
Pauline Greenhill, Editor
Diane Tye, Editor

Files

Description

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 topics such as Thanksgiving turkeys, rockabilly and bar fights, Chinese tales of female ghosts, selkie stories, a noisy Mennonite New Year's celebration, the Distaff Gospels, Kentucky tobacco farmers, international adoptions, and more.

In Unsettling Assumptions, folkloric forms express but also counteract negative aspects of culture like misogyny, homophobia, and racism. But expressive culture also emerges as fundamental to our sense of belonging to a family, an occupation, or friendship group and, most notably, to identity performativity and the construction and negotiation of power.

ISBN

978-0874218978

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publisher

Utah State University Press

Keywords

Gender

Disciplines

Folklore | Social and Cultural Anthropology

Recommended Citation

“Cutting a Thousand Sticks of Tobacco Makes a Boy a Man: Traditionalized Performances of Masculinity in Occupational Contexts.” In Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag, eds. Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye. Utah State University Press.