What is the theme in The Eatonville Anthology by Zora Neale Hurston?

Preservation of culture is a theme in the book. Storytelling guarantees that a social system endures. A community and its people can be remembered and its customs preserved through the telling of stories. The individual stories in "The Eatonville Anthology" demonstrate how the citizens of a small, rural community are connected in spirit and culture. As a whole, the stories present a coherent picture of the lives, language, and social structure of Eatonville in the early 1920s.