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DR. THOMAS BURTON: Some people
call me a folklorist, sometimes a filmmaker. Some people call me
a closet anthropologist. I'm a retired professor, but still a student
of southern Appalachia, really. (CLICKING) DR. BURTON: The archives started
back in the late '60s. A colleague and I
studied folklore and talked folklore, and we wanted to preserve it. So that's how
the Archives of Appalachia was established. I find that in collecting
their life stories, traditions, and beliefs, it's, uh, really one way
of understanding our own history. This is oral history
and folklore. Appalachian folklore
call me a folklorist, sometimes a filmmaker. Some people call me
a closet anthropologist. I'm a retired professor, but still a student
of southern Appalachia, really. (CLICKING) DR. BURTON: The archives started
back in the late '60s. A colleague and I
studied folklore and talked folklore, and we wanted to preserve it. So that's how
the Archives of Appalachia was established. I find that in collecting
their life stories, traditions, and beliefs, it's, uh, really one way
of understanding our own history. This is oral history
and folklore. Appalachian folklore
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DR. THOMAS BURTON: Some people
call me a folklorist,
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sometimes a filmmaker.
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Some people call me
a closet anthropologist.
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I'm a retired professor,
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but still a student
of southern Appalachia, really.
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(CLICKING)
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DR. BURTON: The archives started
back in the late '60s.
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A colleague and I
studied folklore
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and talked folklore,
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and we wanted to preserve it.
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So that's how
the Archives of Appalachia
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was established.
00:00:40.458 --> 00:00:44.876
I find that in collecting
their life stories,
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traditions, and beliefs,
00:00:46.667 --> 00:00:49.667
it's, uh, really one way
of understanding
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our own history.
00:00:52.625 --> 00:00:56.997
This is oral history
and folklore.
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Appalachian folklore.
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Movie Summary
Explores the story of a Pentecostal minister, accused of attempting to murder his wife with a rattlesnake. Based on true events!
