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1 online resource (x, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Through Navajo eyes: pictorial weavings from Spider Woman's loom / Nancy Peake -- Appropriation and counterhegemony in south Texas: food slurs, offal meats, and blood / Mario Montano -- Dyngus Day in Polish American communities / Deborah Anders Silverman -- "May the work I've done speak for me": African American women as speech community / Jerrilyn McGregory -- "Giving" of Yiddish folksongs as a cultural resource / Joel Saxe -- Newell's paradox redux / Jay Mechling -- Historical narrative in the martial arts: a case study / Thomas A. Green -- Pioneers and recapitulation in Mormon popular historical expression / Eric A. Eliason -- "Up here, we never see the sun": homeplace and crime in urban Appalachian narratives / John R. Williams -- Booze, ritual, and the invention of tradition: the phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In / Pat Byrne -- Shell games in vacationland: Homarus Americanus and the state of Maine / George H. Lewis -- How Texans remember the Alamo / Sylvia Ann Grider -- "Kamell Dung": a challenge to Canada's national icon / Robert M. MacGregor -- Closing the circle: yellow ribbons and the redemption of the past / Tad Tuleja. |
| Summary |
"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.""--Publisher's description. |
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Print version record. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Minorities -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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Minorities -- Canada -- Social life and customs.
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Ethnology -- United States.
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Ethnology -- Canada.
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History.
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Social sciences.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
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Minorities -- Social life and customs.
(OCoLC)fst01023229
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Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Kulturanthropologie.
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Nationale Minderheit.
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Nordamerika.
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| Added Author |
Tuleja, Tad, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Usable pasts. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997 0874212251 (DLC) 96051304 (OCoLC)36170505 |
| ISBN |
9780874213348 (electronic bk.) |
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0874213347 (electronic bk.) |
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0585034354 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585034355 (electronic bk.) |
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087421226X |
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9780874212266 |
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0874212251 |
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9780874212259 |
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1283275201 |
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9781283275200 |
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