Decoration day in the mountains : traditions of cemetery decoration in the southern Appalachians / / Alan Jabbour & Karen Singer Jabbour
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| Autore: |
Jabbour Alan
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| Titolo: |
Decoration day in the mountains : traditions of cemetery decoration in the southern Appalachians / / Alan Jabbour & Karen Singer Jabbour
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map |
| Disciplina: | 393/.90975 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mourning customs - Appalachian Region, Southern |
| Cemeteries - Appalachian Region, Southern | |
| Decoration and ornament - Appalachian Region, Southern | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs |
| Altri autori: |
JabbourKaren Singer
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| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; About the Photographs; A map of western North Carolina cemeteries pictured in this book; 1 Two Encounters with Decoration Day; 2 Decoration Day in Western North Carolina; 3 Cemetery Features in Western North Carolina; 4 Historical and Cultural Origins of the Region; 5 The North Shore: Removal and Revolution; 6 The Origin, Diffusion, and Range of Decoration Day; 7 The North Shore and Decoration Day in Sign, Symbol, and Art; 8 The Unsung Heroes of Decoration Day; 9 Concluding Thoughts; APPENDIX A. Project History; APPENDIX B. Log of Ethnographic Events, North Shore Cemetery Decoration Project, 2004; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil War celebrations that ultimately gave us our national Memorial Day. Little has been written about this tradition, but it is still observed widely throughout the Upland South, from North Carolina to the Ozarks. Written by internationally recognized folklorist Alan Jabbour and illustrated with more than a hundred photographs taken by Kare |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Decoration day in the mountains |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908838-9-6 |
| 0-8078-9569-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785198303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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