Sparta, Texas traditions of self-sufficiency and community solidarity /
active social life, a common vocation and a shared history.
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1998.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | active social life, a common vocation and a shared history. and community self-awareness. Through its application, aspects of the community's tenancy have come to light. attributed to stability on the land, strong kinship ties, an bonds that sustained the life of censuses, as well as a description of the artifacts cohesive and vital community until the waters of Belton collected from former residents of the Sparta community. collected, are presented here. Six oral histories were commercial farming and urbanization, Sparta remained a community of Sparta existed for one hundred years. Unlike farmsteads, located in the uplands surrounding the reservoir, further investigation, Archival documentation of each site, In the Cowhouse valley of western Bell County, the rural inquiry are synthesized within the community study model of Kolb and Snead (1997). This model focuses on three elements many small communities that fell to the pressures of of community -- social reproduction, subsistence production Reservoir inundated its farmland. Twelve historic Sparta through three and four generations have been Sparta's families were economically self-sufficient, however, such as deed and tax records, population and agricultural the community. The data obtained from these three avenues of They gave testimony to life on the farm and involvement in they participated in a system of mutual dependency. The were deemed historically significant, and thus, merited |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | x, 245 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references:pages 207-217. |