Online-Ressource
[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Utah State University
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The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
ISBN:
9780874212266
Sprache:
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1 Online-Ressource ( p.)
DDC:
305.800973
Schlagwort(e):
Nationale Minderheit
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Kulturanthropologie
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Nordamerika
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
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 changing meaning of their defining Exodus-like migration to Mormons, Newfoundlanders' appropriation through the rum-drinking ritual called the Schreech-In of outsiders' stereotypes, outsiders' imposition of the once-despised lobster as the emblem of Maine, the contest over Texas's heroic Alamo legend and its departures from historical fact, and how yellow ribbons were transformed from an image in a pop song to a national symbol of ""resolve.""...
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