AMST 211 1st Edition Lecture 4Outline of Current Lecture I. Terms from the previous weekII. Southern Salt Current LectureSmallholder: person who possess or leases a part of land that is less the 40 or fifty acres. The demographic majority of land owners. Wage Labor: resembles enslaved labor in terms of economic opportunity. Production Agriculture: less personal food production. Made workers even more tied to their plantation job. Pellagra: vitamin deficiencyCaledonia: a prison farm in HalifaxNashville Agrarians: Writers out of Vanderbilt. Spoke of an ideal south. Resettlement: African Americans resettle on farmer plantation land. Southern Salt: sweat, country ham, bacon, beaches, slave labor, commodity, medicinal, tax, icy roads, food preservation, tequila. Ingredient, mineral. • Labor• Preservation• Flavor• Ocean• Commodity • Religion• LongevityPoetic of knowledge: ethics. Crafting associations to see how they cohere around common substances in a way that helps us understand southern imaginaries. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Salt… • preserves and corrodes• desiccates and soluble in water• honest and pure, and dishonest and deceptive. • secular and spiritual• pure and profane in every association. • fertilizes and sterilizes. • Southern by all paradoxes entailed. Salt Ham and Salt FishDiderot sea salt productionSaltville, Virginia: salt marshes, main place of salt production Oyster: liquid animal. Marketed as blazed because of shape. Salt is associated with sound. Genesis 19: Soddom and Gomorrah. Lot is spared by leaving and never looking back. The wife turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back. Shows that salt can represent wickedness. Why salt? Its a preservative. Her lack of faith is preserved and it removes life from her... Salt of the Earth: film about labor and franchisement of labor. Salty Dog: Common and ordinary sailor that is well travelled and has experienced the wickedness of the Earth. Southern Salt and Imaginaries: how would you use salt to describe the South? Tradition is the cultural process of making
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