Usable pasts traditions and group expressions in North America
Title:
Usable pasts traditions and group expressions in North America
Author:
Tuleja, Tad, 1944-
ISBN:
9780874213348
9780585034355
9780874212266
9780874212259
Publication Information:
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 335 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Through Navajo eyes: pictorial weavings from Spider Woman's loom / Appropriation and counterhegemony in south Texas: food slurs, offal meats, and blood / Dyngus Day in Polish American communities / "May the work I've done speak for me": African American women as speech community / "Giving" of Yiddish folksongs as a cultural resource / Newell's paradox redux / Historical narrative in the martial arts: a case study / Pioneers and recapitulation in Mormon popular historical expression / "Up here, we never see the sun": homeplace and crime in urban Appalachian narratives / Booze, ritual, and the invention of tradition: the phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In / Shell games in vacationland: Homarus Americanus and the state of Maine / How Texans remember the Alamo / "Kamell Dung": a challenge to Canada's national icon / Closing the circle: yellow ribbons and the redemption of the past
Abstract:
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 changi.
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