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A collection of interviews of former slaves, conducted by the Virginia Federal Writers' Project in 1936 and 1937.

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The crowning achievement of the New Deal-era Federal Writers' Project (1935-1943) was its American Guide Series of books and pamphlets describing the nation's cities, states, territories, regions, and localities. The Virginia Writers' Program contributed several important volumes to this series, the most popular and widely circulated of which was "Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion." First published in 1940, the Virginia guide is still in great demand more than half a century later for the wealth of fascinating historical information contained in its pages. The first section of the guide presents fifteen essays that range from Douglas Southall Freeman's reflections on the spirit of Virginia to fact-filled analyses of the state's geography, history, population, economy, folk culture, and social life. The second section highlights fifteen of Virginia's largest cities, while the third present twenty-four detailed tours of the state's major regions and points of interest. -- From publisher's description.

Journeys Westtraces journeys made during seven months of fieldwork in 1935 and 1936 by Julian Steward, a young anthropologist, and his wife, Jane. Virginia Kerns identifies the scores of Native elders whom they met throughout the Western desert, men and women previously known in print only by initials, and thus largely invisible as primary sources of Steward's classic ethnography. Besides humanizing Steward's cultural informantsrevealing them as distinct individuals and also as first-generation survivors of an ecological crisis caused by American settlement of their landsKerns shows how the elders worked with Steward. Each helped to construct an ethnographic portrait of life in a particular place in the high desert of the Great Basin. The elders' memories of how they and their ancestors had lived by hunting and gatheringa sustainable way of life that endured for generationsrichly illustrated what Steward termedcultural adaptation. It later became a key concept in anthropology and remains relevant today in an age of global environmental crisis. Based on meticulous research, this book draws on an impressive array of evidencefrom interviews and observations to census data, correspondence, and the field journal of the Stewards.Journeys Westilluminates not only on the elders who were Steward's guides, but also the practice of ethnographic fieldwork: a research method that is both a journey and a distinctive way of looking, listening, and learning.