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Bibliography: Folklore, Cultural Landscapes, Historic Preservation, Cultural Resource Management

Compiled by Michael Ann Williams and Laurie Kay Sommers for the Working Group on Folklore and Historic Preservation Policy

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  • Grand Coulee Dam, North Central Washington and Traditional Cultural Property Overview Report For the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Final Grand Coulee Dam Place Name Document. Prepared under Bonneville Power Administration Contract #35238, November 2003, rev. May 2011.
  • Hackler, M.B., ed. Culture after the Hurricanes, Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast. University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
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  • Heath, Kingston. The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
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  • Markusen, Ann, and Anne Gadwa. Creative Placemaking. A white paper for The Mayors’ Institute on City Design, a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the United States Conference of Mayors and American Architectural Foundation. Economic Research Services, Metris Arts Consulting, 2010.  https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/CreativePlacemaking-Paper.pdf
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  •  McClelland, Linda, and J. Timothy Keller, Genevieve P. Keller, and Robert Z. Melnick. “Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural Historic Landscapes.” National Register Bulletin, no. 30. Washington D. C, US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1990, rev. 1995.
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  • Norkunas, Martha. “Narratives of Resistance and the Consequences of Resistance,” Journal of Folklore Research 41 (2004):105-123.
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  • Rikoon, J. Sandford. “On the Politics of the Politics of Origins: Social (In)Justice and the International Agenda on Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore,” JAF 117 (2004).
  • Rikoon, Heffernan, and Heffernan, “Cultural Conservation and the Family Farm Movement: Integrating Visions and Actions.” In Hufford, ed. Conserving Culture.
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  • Sciorra, Joseph. “Multivocality and Vernacular Architecture, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto in Rosebank, Staten Island.”.Studies in Italian-American Folklore, ed. Luisa Del Giudice (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1993), pp. 203-243.
  • Sciorra, Joseph. “We’re not here just to plant. We Have Culture.” An Ethnography of the South Bronx Casita Rincón Criollo.” New York Folklore 20, 3-4 (1994):19-41.
  •  Siegel, Virginia Denise, “Traditional Cultural Properties and Casita Rincón Criollo” (2015). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 1488. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1488
  •  Sherman, Sharon. “Who Owns Culture and Who Decides? Ethics, Film Methodology, and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection,” Western Folklore 67 (2008): 223-236,315-316.
  •  Smythe, Charles W. and Frederick F. York, guest editors. “Traditional Cultural Properties, Putting Concept into Practice.” National Park Service Centennial Essay Series. The George Wright Forum. Vol. 26, no. 1 (2009).
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  • Solomon, Nancy. On the Bay: Bay Houses and Maritime Culture on Long Island’s Marshlands. Long Island Traditions. 2011.
  • Solomon, Nancy. West Meadow Beach: A Portrait of a Long Island Beach Community. (Port Washington, NY: Long Island Traditions, 2003).
  • Sommers, Lockwood, MacDowell and Stoffle, “Folklife Assessment in the Michigan Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process.” In Hufford, ed., Conserving Culture.
  • Sommers, Laurie Kay, and Eugene C. Hopkins, FAIA, Evan Hall, Associate, Mark Johnson, ASLA, and Jessica Neafsey, ASLA. The River Runs Through It, Report on Historic Structures and Site Design in the Fishtown Cultural Landscape. Leland, Michigan: Fishtown Preservation Society, 2011.
  • Sommers, Laurie. Fishtown, Leland, Michigan’s Historic Fishery. Traverse City: Arbutus Press for Fishtown Preservation Society, 2012.
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  • Williams, Michael Ann. “’When I Can Read My Title Clear’: Anti-Environmentalism and Sense of Place in the Great Smoky Mountains,” Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South. Benita Howell, ed. (University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. 87-99.
  • Williams, Michael Ann. “The Realm of the Tangible: A Folklorist’s Role in Architectural Documentation and Preservation.” In Hufford, ed., The Conservation of Culture.
  • Williams, Michael Ann. Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina. University of Virginia Press, 1994.
  • Wilson, Chris. The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating A Modern Regional Tradition. University of New Mexico Press, 1997.
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