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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821769503321

Autore

Rogers Nicholas

Titolo

Halloween : from pagan ritual to party night / / Nicholas Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-771363-7

0-19-028720-9

1-280-53208-4

0-19-534910-5

0-19-530298-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

394.2646

Soggetti

Halloween - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. SAMHAIN: and the Celtic Origins of Halloween; 2. FESTIVE RITES: Halloween in the British Isles; 3. COMING OVER: Halloween in North America; 4. RAZOR IN THE APPLE: The Struggle for a Safe and Sane Halloween, c. 1920-1990; 5. HALLOWEEN GOES TO HOLLYWOOD; 6. STEPPING OUT; 7. BORDER CROSSINGS; 8. HALLOWEEN AT THE MILLENNIUM; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

'Halloween' explores the holiday's origins and early development in the British Isles, its transition to North America as an ethnic festival and its subsequent place in popular, mass culture as a consumer rite and ritual of transgression.