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Unit IV Outline

Introduction - The State of Our Lives: Being a Louisiana Neighbor

Lesson 1: Louisiana's Major Folk Regions

Lesson 2 Geography, Ecology, and Folklife

Lesson 3 Sense of Place

Unit IV Resources

 

Atchafalaya Basin Annual Cycle


Atchafalaya Anuual Cycle

TEXT-FIGURE 32. Annual cycle of folk activities in the Atchafalaya Basin.

(Used with permission from Geoscience Publications, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University-
Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations by Malcolm Comeaux, 1972).

National Endowment for the Arts.

 
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