Activities in 1999 - 2000

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

      Research and Publication continues to be the most significant element of the Waccamaw Center's mission. Center Director Charles Joyner's book, Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture, published in 1999 by the University of Illinois Press, continues to receive recognition.

      He has just completed writing and editing Historical Ethnography/Ethnographic History, ed., with anthropologist Alice Bee Kassakoff, of the University of South Carolina. This is a book of original essays on the intersection of historical and anthropological approaches to scholarship, submitted to the University of Illinois Press.

      He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Southern Music and Southern Heritage, to be presented in 2001 as the Richard Lecture Series at the University of Virginia and published by the University Press of Virginia.

      In addition, Joyner has several works in press. His "'Forget Hell': The Civil War in Southern Memory," will be the lead essay in The Enduring Significance of the Civil War, ed.Peter Parish and Susan-Mary Grant, a volume in the series "Conflicting Worlds," scheduled for publication at the Louisiana State University Press. In addition, his essay, "The Cultural Triangle: Creolization of African Culture in South Carolina and the Caribbean," is to appear in The South and the Caribbean, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and Douglas Sullivan-Gonzalez, being published by the University Press of Mississippi. And his review of Africa and the Blues, by the German scholar Gerhard Kubik, will appear in the Journal of Southern History next year.