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Autore |
Tuleja Tad <1944-> |
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Titolo |
Usable pasts : traditions and group expressions in North America / / edited by Tad Tuleja |
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Utah State University, University Libraries, 1997 |
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Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 1997 |
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©1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-27520-1 |
9786613275202 |
0-87421-334-7 |
0-585-03435-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - Canada |
Ethnology - United States |
Minorities - Canada - Social life and customs |
Minorities - United States - Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Marking the 'tribal' -- pt. 2. Intentional identities -- pt. 3. The spirit of place -- pt. 4. National perspectives. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Usable Pasts, fourteen authors examine the manipulation of traditional expressions among a variety of groups from the United States and Canada: the development of a pictorial style by Navajo weavers in response to traders, Mexican American responses to the appropriation of traditional foods by Anglos, the expressive forms of communication that engender and sustain a sense of community in an African American women's social club and among elderly Yiddish folksingers in Miami Beach, the incorporation of mass media images into the "C & Ts" (customs and traditions) of a Boy Scout troop, the changing meaning of their defining Exodus-like migration to Mormons, Newfoundlanders' appropriation through the rum-drinking ritual called the Schreech-In of outsiders' stereotypes, outsiders' imposition of the |
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once-despised lobster as the emblem of Maine, the contest over Texas's heroic Alamo legend and its departures from historical fact, and how yellow ribbons were transformed from an image in a pop song to a national symbol of "resolve." |
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