Research Catalog

Title

Ritual, ceremonies, and cultural meaning in higher education / Kathleen Manning.

Author

Manning, Kathleen, 1954-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2000.

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Details

Description

x, 169 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Manning explores the reasons why colleges and universities across the nation often carry on the same traditions within their social structure, including inauguration ceremonies of presidents and chancellors, establishing days which recognize the founding of the institution and myth-making behind the founding itself, and how types of behaviors (protests, initiation rites, honors ceremonies, religious displays) are similarly conducted.

Series Statement

Critical studies in education and culture series, 1064-8615

Uniform Title

Critical studies in education and culture series

Subject

• Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States
• Educational anthropology > United States
• Education, Higher > Social aspects
• Educational anthropology
• Ritual
• Högskoleutbildning > sociala aspekter
• College > sociala aspekter
• Antropologi
• Universität
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-159) and index.

Contents

The Rituals of Higher Education -- Presidential Inauguration -- Rites of Passage: Structuralism -- Charter Day -- Secular Ceremony: Action, Order, and Evocation -- Second Semester Convocation -- Structure, Communitas, and Liminality -- Baccalaureate -- Cultural Performances: Rehearsals and Informality -- Junior Show -- Messages, Meanings, and Root Paradigms -- Mary Lyon's Birthday Celebration -- Old Traditions in New Places: The Oxymoron of "New" Rituals -- Alumnae Parade and Laurel Chain -- Constructivist Inquiry and Higher Education Rituals.

ISBN

• 0897895045
• 9780897895040

LCCN

99055887

OCLC

• ocm42708107
• 42708107
• SCSB-8911575

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library