ISBN:
9780817352868
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9780817382254 (Sekundärausgabe)
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
313 p.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780817382254
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
394.20976
Kurzfassung:
This provocative collection draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to shed light on the role that public ceremonies play in affirming or debunking cultural identities associated with the South. W. J. Cash's 1941 observation that ""there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them"" is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its ""lost cause"" tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals--parades, cook-offs, kinship homecom-ings, church assem...
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