Vernacular Architecture and the Park Removals: Traditionalization as Justification and Resistance
Williams MA. 2001. Vernacular Architecture and the Park Removals: Traditionalization as Justification and Resistance. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. 13(1):33-42
ABSTRACT: The creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, authorized in 1926, entailed the largest removal of a local population for a park in United States history. After an early policy change that halted the wholesale elimination of the cultural landscape, the National Park Service used the preservation of traditional culture as an implicit justification for the park’s creation. In contrast, the families of those removed sought new meanings in the remnants of the cultural landscape within the park and established new rituals that celebrated an alternate interpretation of the selectively edited landscape.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Williams, Michael
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- APHN, Appalachian Highlands Network, Cades Cove, cultural landscape, cultural resources, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, GRSM, history, SER, Southeast Region