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Southern heritage on display : public ritual and ethnic diversity within southern regionalism / edited by Celeste Ray.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Festivals--Social aspects--Southern States.
- Festivals.
- Rites and ceremonies--Southern States.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Minorities--Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Minorities.
- Cultural pluralism--Southern States.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Group identity--Southern States.
- Group identity.
- Memory--Social aspects--Southern States.
- Memory.
- Southern States--Social life and customs--1865-.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Southern States--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This provocative collection draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to shed light on the role that public ceremonies play in affirming or debunking cultural identities associated with the South. W. J. Cash's 1941 observation that ""there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them"" is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its ""lost cause"" tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals--parades, cook-offs, kinship homecom-ings, church assem
- Contents:
- "Keeping jazz funerals alive" : blackness and the politics of memory in New Orleans / Helen A. Regis
- The mardi gras Indian song cycle : a heroic tradition / Kathryn VanSpanckeren
- "There's a dance every weekend" : powwow culture in southeast North Carolina / Clyde Ellis
- Melungeons and the politics of heritage / Melissa Schrift
- Kin-religious gatherings : display for an "inner public" / Gwen Kennedy Neville
- Religious healing in southern Appalachian communities / Susan Emley Keefe
- Viva Mexico! : Mexican independence day festivals in central Florida / Joan Flocks and Paul Monaghan
- Forget the Alamo : fiesta and San Antonio's public memory / Laura Ehrisman
- "Where the Old South still lives" : displaying heritage in Natchez, Mississippi / Steven Hoelscher
- "'Thigibh!' means 'y'all come!'" : renegotiating regional memories through Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8225-9
- OCLC:
- 248421017
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