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The Cultures of celebrations / edited by Ray B. Browne and Michael T. Marsden.
- Title
- The Cultures of celebrations / edited by Ray B. Browne and Michael T. Marsden.
- Publication
- Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1994.
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- Description
- 244 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Popular entertainments, like all other aspects of popular culture, are windows into the attitudes and values of the people who participate in them. They both reflect and affect society as they celebrate an aspect of life. Such celebrations are a text which provide the four births necessary for our full development - the anthropological concept of being "thrice born" (first into our culture, then into another culture we study, then back into our culture with new insights about both cultures) and finally a fourth birth into freedom from the grip of the two - and other - societies. The 15 essays in this collection, contributed by some of the world's leading scholars, demonstrate various aspects of celebrations of cultures and the importance they have in those cultures. They are especially significant because they are international and comparative, contemporary and historical. In sum, they present a fascinating and significant picture and summing up of many chapters of the world at play and celebration.
- Series Statement
- Outdoor entertainment series
- Uniform Title
- Outdoor entertainment series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Light and dark of the sunroad: feminine processions and masculine parades / Anne K. Kaler -- Political activism and quietism in Shi'a rituals: versatility in paradox / Mehran Tamadonfar -- Re-presenting an old outdoor entertainment: Stonehenge / David Crouch with Adam Colin -- The dream of community: folk festivals and ideology in Australia / Judith L. Kapferer -- Popular culture and the visual messages of the Lord Mayor's procession / Terry Donovan Smith -- Parties for the common good: civic socializing in Puritan New England / Bruce C. Daniels -- National portraits: the columbian celebrations of 1792, 1892-93 and 1992 as cultural moments / George E. Weddle -- "It was everything else we knew it wasn't": the circus and American culture / Doug A. Mishler -- The menace of the wild west shows / Susan F. Clark -- Summer and winter festivals in Thompson, Manitoba / Michael T. Marsden.
- Two northwestern Ohio beauty pageants: a study in middle America's cultural rituals / Michael T. Marsden -- New Orleans' Bourbon Street: the evolution of an entertainment district / Les Wade -- Alternative theatres in Kentucky / Marilyn Casto -- Instruction and delight: theme parks and education / Margaret J. King.
- ISBN
- 0879726512 (clothbound)
- 0879726520 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^93074428^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library