Actions: Economic Buying
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accounting
- Ascent
- Asking for money
- Auction
- Banking
- Bankrupcy
- Bargaining
- Barter
- Blacksmithing
- Bootlegging
- Borrowing
- Bribing
- Buying a house
- Buying a shop or store
- Buying on credit
- Buying timber
- Carpentry
- Child support
- Competition
- Delivery
- Earning Money
- Eviction
- Factory labor
- Frugality
- Getting a receipt
- Gifting
- Hiring / employing / offering a job
- Horse trading
- Impounding
- Indebtedness
- Insurance payment
- Investing
- Lending Money
- Offering to buy
- Offering to sell
- Partnership
- Paying
- Purchase
- Rationalization
- Rationing
- Receiving money
- Renting
- Saving money
- Scamming
- Scheming
- Selling
- Selling a house or place
- Selling land
- Settling up
- Sex as payment
- Share-cropping|Tenantry
- Shopping
- Stock trading
- Store owner
- Taking without paying
- Trading
- Transactional
Tagged Events
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Objects›Gun | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Place›Indian agency | Place›Official office | Place›River-bottom | Time of Day›Saturday night
Actions: Bodily›Waking | Communication›Lack of communication | Communication›Silence | Economic›Buying | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Record keeping | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Economy›White-Indian commerce | History›Indian Removal | Law›Legal document | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Knowledge | Community›Secrecy | Money›Coin | Money›Gold | Texts›Deed
Relationships: Economical | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metonym | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Surprise | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Character›Ruthless | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Public›Courtroom | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Economic›Buying | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Frustration | Legal›Divorce | Legal›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Gender›And marriage | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Women | Law›Justice of the Peace | Ritual›Wedding | Sexuality›Female
Relationships: Marital›Civil marriage | Marital›Divorce | Marital›Shotgun marriage | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Language barriers | Economic›Buying | Mental›Planning | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Interracial | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Wagon
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Place›Negro district
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Road
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Looking | Bodily›Sitting | Economic›Buying | Movement›Train | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Public›Filling Station
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Hungering | Economic›Buying | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Threat
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Friday
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Risque
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Misreading
Environment: Place›Fishing camp
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Economic›Buying | Economic›Selling | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime›Bootlegging | Law›Legal document
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Economy›Labor unions | Economy›Prices | Food›Bread | Food›Coca-Cola | Politics›Democrat | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Reassurance
Cultural Issues: Economy›Prices | Progress›Racialized | Race›Black property ownership | Segregation›Economic
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Buying | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Law›Regulation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Arkansas | Diction›Rural vernacular
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Paralysis
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Objects›Wheel chair
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Yard
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Character›Curmudgeonly
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Thursday | Time of Year›Wednesday
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Bootlegging | Class›Respectability | Gender›Masculine woman | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Economic›Buying