LEADER 03583nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910451867403321 005 20210602215809.0 010 $a1-280-94699-7 010 $a9786610946990 010 $a0-8135-3944-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813539447 035 $a(CKB)1000000000466577 035 $a(EBL)1021847 035 $a(OCoLC)76880811 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000248606 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210077 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000248606 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10202376 035 $a(PQKB)11649032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1021847 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23294 035 $a(DE-B1597)526092 035 $a(OCoLC)1100515133 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813539447 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1021847 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10146778 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL94699 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000466577 100 $a20050926d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSomething old, something bold$b[electronic resource] $ebridal showers and bachelorette parties /$fBeth Montemurro 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-3811-4 311 0 $a0-8135-3810-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction: Joining the Party --$t2. Origins of Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties --$t3. Something Old: Etiquette, Tradition, and Femininity at Bridal Showers --$t4. Something Borrowed and Blue: The Bachelorette Party --$t5. Something New: Consumption, Materialism, and Excess in Pre-wedding Rituals --$t6. Something Different: Variations in Pre-wedding Rituals --$t7. Conclusion: Bashful Brides and Bold Bachelorettes --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aWeddings in the United States are often extravagant, highly ritualized, and costly affairs. In this book, Beth Montemurro takes a fresh look at the wedding process, offering a perspective not likely to be found in the many planning books and magazines readily available to the modern bride. Montemurro draws upon years of ethnographic research to explore what prenuptial events mean to women participants and what they tell us about the complexity and ambiguity of gender roles. Through the bachelorette party and the bridal shower, the bride-to-be is initiated into the role of wife by her friends and family, who present elaborate scenarios that demonstrate both what she is sacrificing and what she is gaining. Montemurro argues that American society at the turn of the twenty-first century is still married to traditional conceptions of masculinity and femininity and that prenuptial rituals contribute to the stabilization of gender inequalities 606 $aShowers (Parties)$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBachelorette parties$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMarriage customs and rites 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aShowers (Parties)$xHistory. 615 0$aBachelorette parties$xHistory. 615 0$aMarriage customs and rites. 676 $a392.50973 700 $aMontemurro$b Beth$f1972-$01029201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451867403321 996 $aSomething old, something bold$92445486 997 $aUNINA LEADER 06761nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910961573003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781457116940 010 $a1457116944 010 $a9781607321576 010 $a1607321572 035 $a(CKB)2670000000161421 035 $a(EBL)3039762 035 $a(OCoLC)781635696 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606197 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11345391 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606197 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580583 035 $a(PQKB)10938151 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4128 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039762 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10547360 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL913722 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039762 035 $a(Perlego)2032746 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000161421 100 $a20111208d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe anthropological study of class and consciousness /$fedited by E. Paul Durrenberger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBoulder $cUniversity Press of Colorado$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781646420216 311 08$a1646420217 311 08$a9781607321569 311 08$a1607321564 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; ONE. Introduction; WHY STUDY CLASS?; THE INVISIBILITY OF CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES; HOW CAN WE MAKE CLASS VISIBLE?; THE ROLE OF ETHNOGRAPHY; THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLASS; CLASS AND CONSCIOUSNESS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES CITED; TWO. Thinking Political Communities; INTRODUCTION; STRATIFICATION AS TEMPORAL, SPATIAL, AND COGNITIVE PROCESS; THE EASTERN STEPPE AND XIONGNU EMERGENCE; XIONGNU STYLES OF STRATIFICATION; EXPLAINING XIONGNU POLITICS; NEGOTIATING POLITICAL COMMUNITY; XIONGNU RULERS AND STEPPE BELIEF SYSTEMS 327 $aMATERIAL SYMBOLS OF COMMONALITY AND DIVISION BENEFITS OF AN UNSTABLE ECONOMY; POLITICS, PASTORALISM, AND SOCIAL RE-SCALING; STATECRAFT AND SUSTAINABILITY; THE SPATIAL POLITICS OF MOBILITY; THE UNFOLDING OF A XIONGNU POLITICS OF THOUGHT; REFERENCES CITED; THREE. Dividing Land and Creating Class; INTRODUCTION; THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLASS IN ICELAND; WHAT THE HISTORICAL SOURCES DO NOT TELL US; LAND CLAIM AND DIVISION PATTERNS IN THE VIKING AGE; SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A TENANT CLASS; DIVIDING LAND AND MAKING CLASS 327 $aTHE LIMITATIONS OF SETTLEMENT PATTERN ANALYSES AND THE STUDY OF CLASS REFERENCES CITED; FOUR. Fried's Evolutionary Model, Social Stratification, and the Nuosu in Southwest China; INTRODUCTION; THE TWO CASES: NINGLANG AND LEIBO IN XIAO LIANGSHAN; Ninglang: A Multiethnic Zone; Leibo: Nuosu-Han Zone of Contention; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; FIVE. Class and Consciousness in the "Antiglobal" South; INTRODUCTION: WORLDVIEW AND THE ANTICAPITALIST MOVEMENT; ENERGETICS AND "WEALTH CREATION": EXPOSING THE FALSE WORLDVIEW OF THE GLOBAL ELITE 327 $aREAL WEALTH AND VIRTUAL WEALTH: A SOURCE OF CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION THE PHANTOM GROWTH OF VIRTUAL WEALTH; "CREATIVE DESTRUCTION": THE PRODUCTION OF REAL WEALTH; THE CLOSED-SYSTEM VIEW: DEPENDENCY THEORY, NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS, AND THE IMAGE OF LIMITED GOOD; EXPANDING PIES AND FIXED PIES: AN ETHNOLOGY OF SUSTAINABILITY AND MUTUAL SELF-RESTRAINT; CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AS A CLOSED SYSTEM; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; SIX. Crash, Collapse, and Catastrophe in Postindustrial North America; THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT-DISASTER SCENARIOS; THE DATA; THE CRASH; CATASTROPHE-THE 2012ERS 327 $aCOLLAPSE-PEAK OIL COLLAPSE-THE NWO; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; SEVEN. Class and Consciousness; INTRODUCTION; THEORY AND METHODS; THE COLONIAL PERIOD; FEDERALIST ERA; THE FRONTIER PERIOD; THE CIVIL WAR ERA; THE POPULIST ERA; DEPRESSION/NEW DEAL ERA; POST-WWII ERA; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; EIGHT. Immigrant Heterogeneity and Class Consciousness in New Rural US Destinations; INTRODUCTION: IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL CLASS; DRIVING WHILE BROWN: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS; CLUTTERED YARDS AND CLIPPED GOLF COURSES: CONSUMPTION AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS; DISCUSSION; NOTES 327 $aREFERENCES CITED 330 8 $aPresenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to this volume use the methods of historical materialism, cultural ecology, and political ecology to understand the realities of class and how they evolve. Five central ideas unify the collection: the objective basis for class in different social orders; people's understanding of class in relation to race and gender; the relation of ideologies of class to realities of class; the U.S. managerial middle-class denial of class and emphasis on meritocracy in relation to increasing economic insecurity; and personal responses to economic insecurity and their political implications. Anthropologists who want to understand the nature and dynamics of culture must also understand the nature and dynamics of class. The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness addresses the role of the concept of class as an analytical construct in anthropology and how it relates to culture. Although issues of social hierarchy have been studied in anthropology, class has not often been considered as a central element. Yet a better understanding of its role in shaping culture, consciousness, and people's awareness of their social and natural world would in turn lead to better understanding of major trends in social evolution as well as contemporary society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, labor studies, ethnohistory, and sociology. 606 $aClass consciousness 606 $aClassism 606 $aLabor unions 606 $aSocial classes 606 $aSocial stratification 606 $aWorking class 615 0$aClass consciousness. 615 0$aClassism. 615 0$aLabor unions. 615 0$aSocial classes. 615 0$aSocial stratification. 615 0$aWorking class. 676 $a305.5 701 $aDurrenberger$b E. Paul$f1943-$0142136 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961573003321 996 $aThe anthropological study of class and consciousness$94361512 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$63.00$u06/17/2016$5Dis