South Jersey Under The Stars: Essays On Culture, Agriculture, And Place by Allison Hayes-Conroy (2005, Hardcover)

Key Details
Author:	Allison Hayes-Conroy
Language:	English
Publisher:	Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0838640524
ISBN-13:	9780838640524

Size
Length:	263 pages
Thickness:	0.8 in
Weight:	19.2 oz

Publisher's Note
Starting from the premise that "all social institutions will bend now in the direction of ecology or become dated, dysfunctional, or as Hegel might put it, `historically surpassed,'" Hayes-Conroy (a graduate student in geography at the U. of Hawaii) uses her home of Burlington County, New Jersey and surrounding areas as window into how the application of ecological thought will play out in local social institutions. She presents four essays analyzing farmers of the New Jersey Pine Barrens Reserve acting as agricultural stewards; the relationship between agricultural markets, suburbanization, and other forms of landscape change; the relationship between landscape change and residents' identification with the built environment; and aspects of regional identity, agriculture, and community as seen in light of festival and ritual promoting seasonal awareness. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)