Traditions of Eloquence in Afro-American Communities

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger D. Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
The Mind

…In the south there was the daily impact upon the white man of the effect of the Negro, concerning whom nothing is so certain as his remarkable tendency to seize on lovely words, to roll them in his throat, to heap them in redundant profusion one upon another until meaning vanishes, until there is nothing left but the sweet, canorous drunkenness, nothing but the play of primitive rhythm upon the secret springs of emotion.W. J. Cash, The Mind of the SouthBoth in Africa and in America the Negro seems to find a decided pleasure in altiloquent speech. Perhaps this bombast is partly due to the fact that the long and unusual word has a sort of awe-inspiring almost fetishistic significance to the uneducated person, and with the Negro, at least, it indicated a desire to approximate the white man in outward signs of learning. As it is, the Negro is constantly being lost in a labyrinth of jaw-breaking words full of sound and fury but signifying nothing.Newbell Niles Puckett, Folk Beliefs of Southern Negroes

The Mind of the South.

1941 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 400 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Vann Woodward ◽  
W. J. Cash
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The Mind

“Crashing to Bits”

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
Justin Mellette
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
Lillian Smith ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Black Boy

Chapter 3 considers the myriad nature of southern memoir, with particular focus on the anti-racist work of Lillian Smith. Published in a decade replete with southerners writing about the South, including W. J. Cash’s The Mind of the South, William Percy’s Lanterns on the Levee, and Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream confronts southern paternalism in a stark, direct manner. Specifically, Smith responds to many of her contemporaries by presenting the South not as a romantic site of gentility, but rather as a psychologically traumatizing hellscape, one replete with specters of violence perpetrated against blacks as well as paternalistic control levied against women and poor whites. This chapter contextualizes Smith alongside these other writers, with primary focus on Percy's nostalgia and romanticization of southern gentility, as well as his disdain for poor whites, whom he derides as scoundrels and markedly inferior versions of whiteness.

Sachs, Chavafambira, Maggie: Prurience or the Pathology of Social Relations?

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grahame Hayes
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Traditional Healer ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
The South ◽  
The Social ◽  
Southern Rhodesia ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Mind

Black Hamlet (1937; reprinted 1996) tells the story of Sachs's association with John Chavafambira, a Manyika nganga (traditional healer and diviner), who had come to Johannesburg from his home in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Sachs's fascination with Chavafambira was initially as a “research subject” of a psychoanalytic investigation into the mind of a sane “native”. Over a period of years Sachs became inextricably drawn into the suffering and de-humanization experienced by Chavafambira as a poor, black man in the urban ghettoes that were the South Africa of the 1930s and 1940s. It is easy these days to want to dismiss Sachs's “project” as the prurient gaze of a white, liberal psychiatrist. This would not only be an ahistorical reading of Black Hamlet, but it would also diminish the possibilities offered by what Said (1994) calls, a contrapuntal reading. I shall present a reading of Black Hamlet, focusing on the three main characters - Sachs, Chavafambira, and Maggie (Chavafambira's wife) - as emblematic of the social relations of the other, racial(ised) bodies, and gender.

The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later.

1994 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 429
Author(s):  
Dickson D. Bruce Jr. ◽  
Bruce Clayton ◽  
Anne Goodwyn Jones ◽  
Michael O'Brien ◽  
Orville Vernon Burton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The Mind

The Mind of the South

1942 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 374
Author(s):  
Clement Eaton ◽  
W. J. Cash
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals The Ca Ong (Whale) belief followed by the inhabitants of the Ly Son island District – Quang Ngai

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Nguyen Duy Doai
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
The South ◽  
Central Coast ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
South Central ◽  
Title System ◽  
The Temple

The Ca Ong (whale) belief is one of the folk beliefs in Vietnam. The Ca Ong belief followed by the inhabitants of the Ly Son island district not only reflects their spiritual needs, but also educates people in the value of gratefulness. Thus, at the temple, the practitioners of the Ca Ong belief often hang many horizontal lacquered boards (hoành phi) with parallel sentences in the main hall, with the purpose of explicating the aforementioned values. This belief also reflects the aspirations of the island inhabitants, who wish to have their lives blessed with happiness by the god. Particularly, this paper explores the divergence of the Ca Ong belief that can be found in this island. Namely, this belief is not only worshipped at the temple by the community, but also privately within the Dang family, where they worship Ca Ong as a god. This is something never happening in other regions such as the South Central coast or the South of Vietnam. Furthermore, this paper focuses on the change of the title system within this belief. Whereas titles were previously bestowed by the Nguyen dynasty, family titles in the Ly Son Island are bestowed by the Shaman.

THE COMPOSITION OF PRIVATE PEDIATRIC PRACTICE IN A SMALL COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 548-558
Author(s):  
J. R. Boulware
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
The United States ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Small Community ◽  
The South ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Mind

A summary of the preventive treatments given, and the different types of diseases and conditions seen in 25 years of private pediatric practice in a small southern community is divided into 19 classifications. An estimate of the percentage of time devoted to each classification is presented. Preventive medicine, i.e., routine care of infants, preventive treatments and routine examinations, constituted about two-fifths of this pediatric practice. Granting that firm scientific conclusions cannot be drawn from this study it is the author's opinion, based on records resulting from 25 years of practice, that an awareness of a disease in the mind of the pediatrician influences his diagnosis, that the locale of a practice will make for differences in incidence of certain diseases, and that the pattern of diagnosis, as well as of diseases, changes.

Folk Beliefs about Soul and Mind: Cross-Cultural Comparison of Folk Intuitions about the Ontology of the Person

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 346-369
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Gut ◽  
Andrew Lambert ◽  
Oleg Gorbaniuk ◽  
Robert Mirski
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
The Status ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Folk Intuitions

Abstract The present study addressed two related problems: The status of the concept of the soul in folk psychological conceptualizations across cultures, and the nature of mind-body dualism within Chinese folk psychology. We compared folk intuitions about three concepts – mind, body, and soul – among adults from China (N=257) and Poland (N=225). The questionnaire study comprised of questions about the functional and ontological nature of the three entities. The results show that the mind and soul are conceptualized differently in the two countries: The Chinese appear to think of the soul similarly to how they view the mind (importantly, they still seem to see it as separate from the body), while Poles differentiate it both in ontological and functional respects. The study provides important insights into cross-cultural differences in conceptualizing the soul as well as into the nature of Chinese mind-body dualism.

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