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AMST 211 1st EditionExam # 1 Study Guide Lectures: 1 - 13Lecture 1: What is the South?Place v. space, character v. charicature. What is culture?Symbolic interaction, ways of life, who and what we are or perceive others to be. Connect this to the South. Four Important Ideas: - Idea of Imaginary- Aesthetics- Affect- Ideologies*Imaginaries and Aesthetics are what we have covered in class this far* Lecture 2: Southern Imaginaries Terms: Imaginary- Plantation: agriculture enterprise by masters that direct large labor forces in the production of export crops such as indigo, tobacco, and cotton- Plantation Myth: ongoing narrative that surrounds the antebellum plantation. This was created by white southerners to romanticize and mythologize the racial past. Examples include Monticello, Mount Vernon, etc. - Landscape: range of human relationships that are expressed in the physical environment. Events take place here. These are physically made and shaped.- Ensemble: blending that can sometimes be harmonious, or a collection of elements. - Articulated: idea of expressing individual elements within a landscape. - Segmented: divided by different social expressions such as race, politics, and gender. - Processional: representation of larger social order that is ceremonial. Examples are parades- Sociability- Colono wareDescribe the hierarchy of plantations. - Big House- Quarter- OutbuildingPrime example of a Southern imaginary (place)? Charleston, SC. Lecture 3: Agrarian Imaginaries Key Terms: - Smallholder: small farm owner- Wage Labor: selling your labor for income- Production Agriculture: - Pellagra: vitamin deficiency- Nashville Agrarians: disliked industrialism because it caused a loss of Southern identity. - Caledonia - Resettlement: outmigration of African Americans due to postbellum agrarian model. Camouflage and rurality: Acquired culture based on occupied space. What has agriculture meant to the South? Think about Halifax, NC. Anglo-American Settlers in the Mid 18th Century: Large amounts of land that had to be claimed and prepared for cultivation. Jeffersonian Agrarianism: the idea of a free man owning his own farm. Merchants and factory workers were slightly frowned upon. Antebellum Plantation Imaginary: Plantation slavery: How was this a dominant mode of perception in the South?Halifax County and the Freedman’s Bureau: What were the agreements made by slaves?We start to see a transition from servitude to occupation; however men were only paid four times a year. Emphasis of production agriculture. Describe outmigration of African Americans due to the postbellum agrarian model. What was different about Nashville Agrarians? They reclaimed the agricultural past to definethe South with agriculture. Lecture 4: Southern SaltImportant Terms:- Taste of place- Smallholder: 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 tiedto their plantation job. - Pellagra: vitamin deficiency- Caledonia: a prison farm in Halifax- Nashville Agrarians: Writers out of Vanderbilt. Spoke of an ideal south. - Resettlement: African Americans resettle on farmer plantation land. - Poetic of knowledge: ethics. Crafting associations to see how they cohere around common substances in a way that helps us understand southern imaginaries. Southern Salt is represented in labor, preservation, flavor, ocean, commodity, religion, and longevity. Functions of 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 is also associated with sound. Genesis 19: Soddom and Gomorrah. Why did she turn into a pillar of salt? How would you use salt to describe the South? Lecture 5: The Edible SouthKey Terms: - Culinary Grammar: West African foldaways: Culinary grammar based in cereals like rice, millet, and field peas. - Privilege and poverty: resonates in food traditions through the reality of “plenty” and “deprivation.” - Hospitality and performance: Southern Hospitality was central in a plantation. It was a cultural performance that defined class, status, and power. It defined family, friends, or how many slaves you owned.- Cultural exchange: Contact between Europeans and Native Americans is where this began. A result was the creation of Souther cuisine.- “Hog and hominy”: Pigs came with European explorers. They were easy and cheap toraise. Basically pork and corn made a simple, cheap meal. - “3M of impoverishment: meat, meal, molasses”: diet of slaves. They were given the least desirable parts of food, but they improvised and created really tasty things. These three foods did not contain enough niacin. This led to Pellagra. This caused major death because the diets were all starch based and had no lean protein.- Pellagra: vitamin defficiency caused by lack of niacin. - Branding (Plantation Myth): The Early 20’s brought about canned goods, commercial bread, etc. Stores began to fill with southern imagery and racist advertising. Men andwomen saw the appeal of telling the taste in the South. “Branding the South”. Sellingthe moonlight and magnolia South in order to help the South rejoin America and attract Northerners. The mountain South also contained Souther imaginaries. - Local food movements: People are becoming more empowered to buy local.- Authenticity- Hunger (emaciation and obesity): Now we are seeing more obesity rather than emancipation (extreme thinning). Southern food has become untethered from a historical narrative that is responsible for the way we eat in the South. Southern food derives it strength from many outside cultures. This process of creating southern food cultures was negotiated in the early South. This occurred when contact between Europeans and Native American began. There are many diverse types of cuisine in the South, whether it be Latino, Indian, Chinese, etc.Lecture 6: Southern SwampsWhat is a Southern Imaginary? It is a network of relations that constitute an understanding of a particular time, place, society, and culture. The spaces and connections are what interest us.5 terms that defines imaginaries:- Agency: the capacity to act. Individuals exercise agency;


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