Trembling Earth
A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10022947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher F Meindl (0000-0001-5477-2311, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1483-1484 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4485992 |
| OpenAlex | W1979805371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Megan Kate Nelson's volume on the cultural history of Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp is among the recent handful of attempts to make some sense of the historic relationship between people and wetlands in the United States. Nelson expresses dissatisfaction with the notion of regionalism, which she complains places too much emphasis on cultural unity both within geographic areas and across generations within those areas. Instead, she introduces the term ecolocalism: identifying multiple cultural identities rooted in specific ecosystems—all of which can vary over time. Toward this end, Nelson uses an impressive array of primary and secondary sources to document a succession of people who developed their own relationship with this portion of south Georgia. Readers will have to be patient because the first two chapters, which attempt to document the uses of the Okefenokee by runaway slaves and Native Americans, are built upon evidence that often appears barely tangent to human activity in the Okefenokee. This is out of necessity, for, as Nelson freely admits, contemporaries left us a very thin paper trail
Geography · Swamp · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Ecology · History
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |