Guide to the Collection 343. Lorin A. Baumhover Papers, 1961 - 1976, n.d.

Guide to the Collection 343. Lorin A. Baumhover Papers, 1961 - 1976, n.d.

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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection
Creator: Baumhover, Lorin A.
Title: Collection 343. Lorin A. Baumhover Papers, 1961 - 1976, n.d.
Language of Material: Material in English
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University.
Abstract: Lorin A. Baumhover Papers consists of student papers, newspaper articles, and pamphlets about Appalachian Regional topics from when he taught in West Virginia.
Topics include snake-handling, economic development, characteristics of Appalachian people, and an extensive bibliography dated 1967.
Extent: 0.33 linear feet, 1 archival box

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An appointment for research is required. No restrictions to access. No Interlibrary Loan.


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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Collection 343. Lorin A. Baumhover Papers, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, NC, USA.


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Acquisitions Information

Lorin Baumhover donated this materials to the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in August 2006. The accession number is 06-47. It is opened to the public in September 2006.


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Processing Information

Processed by Kathryn Staley, September 2006

Encoded by Kathryn Staley, September 2006


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Biographical Note

Lorin A. Baumhover is the chief of staff of Appalachian State University.


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Online Catalog Headings

Baumhover, Lorin A.
Serpent worship

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Container List

Collection 343. Lorin A. Baumhover Papers. (1961-1976, n.d.)
The Snake-handling Worshippers Series includes student papers, such as research papers, participant observation papers, and book reviews, as well as newspaper articles.
Box Folder
1 1 Snake-handling Worshippers Series. (1961-1976, n.d.)
Student Papers.
Allen Arbogast's "The Church of All Nations." (n.d.)
Paul Harry's "Southern Snake Handling Cult." (1971)
Harry Walker, Jr.'s "Holy Rollers." (n.d.)
"Jolo West Virginia." (n.d.)
Review for Weston La Barre, They Shall Take Up Serpents. (n.d.)
James Akers' "A Snake Handling Observation" (n.d.)
"The Upper Room Religious Movement." (n.d.)
"The Upper Room."
[untitled] (n.d.)
Jack T. Day's "Worship with the Snake." (n.d.)
Review of Berthold Schwarz's "Ordeal by Serpents, Fire and Strychnine, a Study of Some Provocative Psychosomatic Phenomena." (n.d.)
"Social Psychology of Religious Movements." (n.d.)
Box Folder
1 2 Magazine Articles.
Herp: Bulletin of the New York Herpetological Society. Vol. 8, No. 3 and 4 (1972).
Joseph R. Gusfield's "The Study of Social Movements," a reprint from the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968).
Keith Kerman's "Rattlesnake Religion" in Lealon Jones (ed.) Eve's Step-children. (Caldwell, Idaho: The Canton Printers, Ltd., 1942), pp. 93-102.
Balaji Mundkur's "The Cult of the Serpent in the Americas: Its Asian Background." Current Anthropology. Vol. 17, No. 3. (September 1976).
Ben Lucien Burman's "India's Incredible Snake Charmers." Reader's Digest. (October 1970), pp. 49-56.
Box Folder
1 3 Harry Miller's "The Cobra, India's 'Good Snake'." National Geographic. (September 1970), pp. 393-407.
Robert Coles' "God and the Rural Poor." Psychology Today. (January 1972), pp. 33-40.
Nathan L. Gerrard's "The Serpent-Handling Religions of West Virginia." Trans-Action. (May 1968), pp. 22-28.
Time, 1 November 1968, p. 86.
Newspapers, 1961-1976, n.d.
Notes, n.d.
Box Folder
1 4 Miscellaneous Appalachian Themes Series. (1968-1970, n.d.)
"Culture of Poverty." (n.d.)
Gunnar Myrdal's "Challenge to Affluence." (n.d.)
E. Barbara Phillips' " 'Bring Another Blanket, Maw, Them Flatlanders Drove into the Crick' -- Government Ineptitude in Appalachia." (1970)
"A Comparative Summary [of Appalachian Characteristics]" (n.d.)
"General Outline: Appalachian Youth Leadership Development Program." (n.d.)
"Hunger and Malnutrition in the United States: Hearings Before the Sumbcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty." (1968)
"Absolute Poverty: Citizens' Board of Inquiry into Hunger and Malnutrition in the United States." (n.d.)
Box Folder
1 5 Hart Nelsen and Anne Nelsen's "Bibliography on Appalachia: A Guide to Studies Dealing Wtih Appalachia in General and Including Rural and Urban Working Class Attitudes Toward Religion, Education, and Social Change." (1967)
6 Unlabeled Hollier Coal Mining excerpt from Harry Caudill's Night Comes to the Cumberlands. (1963)
Don West's "Romantic Appalachia or Poverty Pays if you Ain't Poor." (n.d.)
"Economic Development in West Virginia." (1968)
"Appalachia: Case Study in Repression." (n.d.)
"The Case for the Generalist in Rural Development." (1969)
The Southern Patriot. January, 1969.
The Floyd County Catholic Parish. June, 1969.
Unlabeled magazine pages of 1914 photograph of mountain cabin and family by William A. Barnhill.
"Poverty: Training and Jobs for the Urban Poor." (1970)
Newspaper clippings, 1969-1971, n.d.
Notes.