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Southern heritage on display : public ritual and ethnic diversity within southern regionalism / Celeste Ray

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2003

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (viii, 301 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

978-0-8173-8225-4 ; 0-8173-8225-9 ; 0-8173-1227-7

LB 58610

 

f Aufsatzsammlung  USA. Südstaaten  Festival  Ethnische Beziehungen  Soziale Situation 

 

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 ritualsâ??parades, cook-offs, kinship homecom-i.