Creative ethnicity : symbols and strategies of contemporary ethnic life Stephen Stern and John Allan Cicala, editors

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cicala, John Allan.

Stern, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--United States.

Folklore.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

Ethnic folklore--United States.

Ethnic folklore.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

xx, 242 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1991.

Contents:

Pasties in Michigan's upper peninsula : foodways, interethnic relations, and regionalism / Yvonne R. Lockwood and William G. Lockwood

Dutchman bands : genre, ethnicity, and pluralism in the upper Midwest / James P. Leary and Richard March

"I gave him a cake" : an interpretation of two Italian-American weddings / Janet S. Theophano

On the tail of the lion : approaches to cross-cultural fieldwork with Chinese-Americans in New York / Madeline Slovenz-Low

The Atlanta child murders : a case study of folklore in the Black community / Patricia A. Turner

Corridos and canciones of mica, migra, and coyotes : a commentary on undocumented immigration / Maria Herrera-Sobek

Strategies of ethnic adaptation : the case of Gypsies in the United States / Carol Silverman

Iranian immigrant name changes in Los Angeles / Betty A. Blair

Ethnic selection and intensification in the Native American powwow / Barre Toelken

The celebration of Passover among Jewish radicals / David Shuldiner

Weddings among Jews in the post-World-War-II American South / Carolyn Lipson-Walker

St. Lucia in Lindsborg, Kansas / Larry Danielson

Making a place home : the Latino festival / Olivia Cadaval

The brokering of ethnic folklore : issues of selection and presentation at a multicultural festival / Susan Auerbach.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

0874211484

OCLC:

22543513