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Show The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey m ,- ^ Milt Oman breaking a young horse. Oman s long lead rein is a twisted horsehair rope called a macardy. (Carol Edison; GCCS CEB-25567/22) There are interesting asymmetries in the development of the various networks devoted to preservation. The historic preservation movement has enjoyed a legal framework and a formal relationship between federal and state agencies; in the field of folklife the federal-state relationships have been informal and less clearly established. Historic preservation at the governmental level has relied heavily upon regulation, documentation, and planning. Governmental efforts in folklife have included documentation programs and a wide variety of programs to encourage folk cultural traditions through public presentation, exhibition, and publication, but have not often involved regulation or planning. For this report, the most striking asymmetries have to do with field documentation surveys. Surveys carried out by historic preservation offices are generally limited to sites and properties, but they are designed to offer comprehensive coverage of entire states. Taken together, the surveys conducted by folklife programs have examined a broad range of expressive culture, tangible as well as intangible, but different cultural forms have been examined in different locations and from different perspectives. In only a few |
