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Usable pasts traditions and group expressions in North America / edited by Tad Tuleja.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuleja, Tad, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Canada.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--United States.
- Minorities--Canada--Social life and customs.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--United States--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Utah State University, University Libraries 1997
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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."
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Marking the 'tribal'
- pt. 2. Intentional identities
- pt. 3. The spirit of place
- pt. 4. National perspectives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613275202
- 9781283275200
- 1283275201
- 9780874213348
- 0874213347
- 9780585034355
- 0585034354
- OCLC:
- 42330233
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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