Halloween : from Pagan ritual to party night / / Nicholas Rogers
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| Autore: |
Rogers Nicholas
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| Titolo: |
Halloween : from Pagan ritual to party night / / Nicholas Rogers
|
| Pubblicazione: | New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 394.2646 |
| Soggetto topico: | Halloween - Great Britain - History |
| Halloween - United States - History | |
| Customs and Folklore | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2002. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Halloween |
| ISBN: | 0-19-771363-7 |
| 0-19-028720-9 | |
| 1-280-53208-4 | |
| 0-19-534910-5 | |
| 0-19-530298-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910957953403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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