UID:
almafu_9958071844102883
Format:
1 online resource (335 pages) :
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illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-27520-1
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9786613275202
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0-87421-334-7
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0-585-03435-4
Content:
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."
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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pt. 1. Marking the 'tribal' -- pt. 2. Intentional identities -- pt. 3. The spirit of place -- pt. 4. National perspectives.
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-87421-225-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-87421-226-X
Language:
English
