Mooney Award Committee Report

The 2001 James Mooney Award Committee Teviewed ten books submitted by six university presses. As we made our final evaluations we soon reached a consensus that two of the ten books were superior in meeting the criteria for the Mooney Award. Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Ide...

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Main Authors: Lefever, Harry, Davis, Hester A., Regis, Helen
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: eGrove 2002
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Online Access:https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southern_anthropologist/vol29/iss1/4
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=southern_anthropologist
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Summary:The 2001 James Mooney Award Committee Teviewed ten books submitted by six university presses. As we made our final evaluations we soon reached a consensus that two of the ten books were superior in meeting the criteria for the Mooney Award. Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840-1950 / by Laurie Wilkie (2000, Louisiana State University Press). Reviewed by Hester A. Davis, Mooney Award Committee, Arkansas Archeological Survey The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography / by David Griffith (1999, Pennsylvania State University Press). Reviewed by Helen Regis, Mooney Award Committee, Louisiana State University