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Autore: | Tuleja Tad |
Titolo: | Usable pasts : traditions and group expressions in North America / / edited by Tad Tuleja |
Pubblicazione: | Utah State University, University Libraries, 1997 |
Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 1997 | |
©1997 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 305.8/00973 |
Soggetto topico: | Ethnology - Canada |
Ethnology - United States | |
Minorities - Canada - Social life and customs | |
Minorities - United States - Social life and customs | |
Altri autori: | TulejaTad <1944-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Marking the 'tribal' -- pt. 2. Intentional identities -- pt. 3. The spirit of place -- pt. 4. National perspectives. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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." |
Titolo autorizzato: | Usable Pasts |
ISBN: | 1-283-27520-1 |
9786613275202 | |
0-87421-334-7 | |
0-585-03435-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996214972703316 |
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