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Author : Robert J. Myers
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Cultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.
Author : Jack Santino
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252065163
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.
Author : Antoinette Broussard
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806526546
This dazzling collection of recipes, style advice, and decorating ideas will help every family bring grace and passion to the holiday season.
Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691017211
Reexamining the story of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt shows that commercial appropriations of these occasions were actually as religious in form as they were secular. The new rituals of America's holiday bazaar offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane - a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift giving, profits and sentiments. In this richly illustrated book that captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances from the mid-eighteenth century through the twentieth, the author offers a reassessment of the "consumer rites" that various social critics have long decried for their spiritual emptiness and banal sentimentality.
Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195171549
Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day - these are but a handful of modern holidays descended from the red-letter days, seasonal celebrations we have invented and reinvented over more than five millennia to meet our changing human needs. When we explore their origins, the holidays begin to reflect not only who we are but also why, through oppressed by time and thwarted by the forces of nature, we never seem to lose the will to control the future.
Author : Barbara Klebanow
Publisher : PLA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780866471961
July 4th, Election Day, Christmas, and New Year's Eve: reading about our American national holidays is not only fun, it is a way of exploring our diverse culture and values. How do we celebrate Memorial Day? What is the history of Thanksgiving? What does "Be my valentine" mean?Special features: 4 appendices of typical holiday gifts, traditional holiday songs, readings for the holidays, a listing of other holidays in the US, the official national holiday of each country in the world.
Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0814722261
How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global holiday? These questions and more are answered in this fascinating exploration into the history and meaning of holidays and rituals. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our time, this collection provides a compelling overview of the impact that holidays and rituals have on our family and communal life. From community solidarity to ethnic relations to religious traditions, We Are What We Celebrate argues that holidays such as Halloween, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day play an important role in reinforcing, and sometimes redefining, our values as a society. The collection brings together classic and original essays that, for the first time, offer a comprehensive overview and analysis of the important role such celebrations play in maintaining a moral order as well as in cementing family bonds, building community relations and creating national identity. The essays cover such topics as the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday; the importance of holidays for children; the mainstreaming of Kwanzaa; and the controversy over Columbus Day celebrations. Compelling and often surprising, this look at holidays and rituals brings new meaning to not just the ways we celebrate but to what those celebrations tell us about ourselves and our communities. Contributors: Theodore Caplow, Gary Cross, Matthew Dennis, Amitai Etzioni, John R. Gillis, Ellen M. Litwicki, Diana Muir, Francesca Polletta, Elizabeth H. Pleck, David E. Proctor, Mary F. Whiteside, and Anna Day Wilde.
Author : Len Travers
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Every holiday has a history, and this set sets out to describe them all. A chronologically organized reference guide to the history of American celebratory days, past, present, and emergent, it focuses on each holiday's cultural and political significance.
Author : Ellen M. Litwicki
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1588344169
From the revered Memorial Day to the forgotten Lasties Day, America's Public Holidays is a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the civic culture of America has been fashioned. By analyzing how holidays became a forum for expressing patriotism, how public tradition has been invented, and how the definition of America itself was changed, Ellen Litwicki tells the intriguing story of the elite effort to create new holidays and the variety of responses from ordinary Americans.
Author : Susan E. Richardson
Publisher : Regal Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780830734429
Holidaus and Holy Days gives you fascinating facts and background about all of the major and minor American holidays, including Jewish feast days. It is a valuable resource for any Christian -- and fun to read besides! Book jacket.