Flatlanders and Ridgerunners: Folk Tales from the Mountains of Northern Pennsylvania Hardback - 2002
by Glimm
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- Title Flatlanders and Ridgerunners: Folk Tales from the Mountains of Northern Pennsylvania
- Author Glimm
- Binding Hardback
- Edition FIRST PAPERBACK
- Condition New
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
- Date 2002-11-21
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822953456
- ISBN 9780822953456 / 0822953455
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 4.57 x 0.66 in (20.07 x 11.61 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 82010895
- Dewey Decimal Code 390.009
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From the rear cover
Oral folklore provides important insights into Pennsylvania mountain culture because it opens a window for us on the inner personality of mountain people. Oral folklore is vital to people in this kind of culture: it entertains them, it informs them, and it serves them as a glue that keeps the society together. These tales are more than a defensive reaction to outside pressure; they are an attempt to maintain cultural balance within the community by taking something threatening and turning it into something harmless and silly.