Celebrations; the Complete Book of American Holidays

Celebrations; the Complete Book of American Holidays
Title Celebrations; the Complete Book of American Holidays PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Myers
Publisher Doubleday Books
Total Pages 424
Release 1972
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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Cultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.

All Around the Year

All Around the Year
Title All Around the Year PDF eBook
Author Jack Santino
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Total Pages 260
Release 1995
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780252065163

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Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.

African American Celebrations and Holiday Traditions

African American Celebrations and Holiday Traditions
Title African American Celebrations and Holiday Traditions PDF eBook
Author Antoinette Broussard
Publisher Kensington Books
Total Pages 268
Release 2004-09-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780806526546

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This dazzling collection of recipes, style advice, and decorating ideas will help every family bring grace and passion to the holiday season.

Consumer Rites

Consumer Rites
Title Consumer Rites PDF eBook
Author Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher Princeton University Press
Total Pages 384
Release 1995
Genre History
ISBN 9780691017211

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Reexamining the story of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt shows that commercial appropriations of these occasions were actually as religious in form as they were secular. The new rituals of America's holiday bazaar offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane - a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift giving, profits and sentiments. In this richly illustrated book that captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances from the mid-eighteenth century through the twentieth, the author offers a reassessment of the "consumer rites" that various social critics have long decried for their spiritual emptiness and banal sentimentality.

American Holidays

American Holidays
Title American Holidays PDF eBook
Author Barbara Klebanow
Publisher PLA
Total Pages 174
Release 2005-08-15
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780866471961

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July 4th, Election Day, Christmas, and New Year's Eve: reading about our American national holidays is not only fun, it is a way of exploring our diverse culture and values. How do we celebrate Memorial Day? What is the history of Thanksgiving? What does "Be my valentine" mean?Special features: 4 appendices of typical holiday gifts, traditional holiday songs, readings for the holidays, a listing of other holidays in the US, the official national holiday of each country in the world.

We are what We Celebrate

We are what We Celebrate
Title We are what We Celebrate PDF eBook
Author Amitai Etzioni
Publisher NYU Press
Total Pages 259
Release 2004-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 081472227X

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How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global holiday? These questions and more are answered in this fascinating exploration into the history and meaning of holidays and rituals. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our time, this collection provides a compelling overview of the impact that holidays and rituals have on our family and communal life. From community solidarity to ethnic relations to religious traditions, We Are What We Celebrate argues that holidays such as Halloween, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day play an important role in reinforcing, and sometimes redefining, our values as a society. The collection brings together classic and original essays that, for the first time, offer a comprehensive overview and analysis of the important role such celebrations play in maintaining a moral order as well as in cementing family bonds, building community relations and creating national identity. The essays cover such topics as the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday; the importance of holidays for children; the mainstreaming of Kwanzaa; and the controversy over Columbus Day celebrations. Compelling and often surprising, this look at holidays and rituals brings new meaning to not just the ways we celebrate but to what those celebrations tell us about ourselves and our communities. Contributors: Theodore Caplow, Gary Cross, Matthew Dennis, Amitai Etzioni, John R. Gillis, Ellen M. Litwicki, Diana Muir, Francesca Polletta, Elizabeth H. Pleck, David E. Proctor, Mary F. Whiteside, and Anna Day Wilde.

Every Day a Holiday

Every Day a Holiday
Title Every Day a Holiday PDF eBook
Author Silvana Clark
Publisher Fleming H. Revell Company
Total Pages 336
Release 2004
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780800758776

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With this resource in hand, teachers and parents will never be without an activity to make the day unique and educational for their children.