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Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
STORIES of BLACK PULLMAN PORTERS
Av Jack Santino
Häftad, 1991
368 kr
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As service workers in a luxurious sleeping-car train system, Pullman porters had both the highest status in the black community and the lowest rank on the train. They were trapped in the dual roles of charming host and obedient servant, and their constant smiles--even in the face of unreasonable …
All Around the Year
Holidays and Celebrations in American Life
Av Jack Santino
Häftad, 1995
344 kr
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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 …
Hallowed Eve
Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland
Av Jack Santino
E-bok, 2014
472 kr
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In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become …
Hallowed Eve
Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland
Av Jack Santino
Häftad, 2009
290 kr
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In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become …
Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life
Av Jack Santino
Häftad, 1994
333 kr
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Why do we celebrate Halloween? No one gets the day off, and unlike all other major holidays it has no religious or governmental affiliation. A survivor of our pre-Christian, agrarian roots, it has become one of the most popular and widely celebrated festivals on the contemporary American calendar. …
Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death
Inbunden, 2006
1468 kr
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This is an edited volume of approximately 17 essays that deal with various types of spontaneous shrines and other, related public memorializations of death. The articles address events such as New York after 9/11; roadside crosses, and the use of 'Day of the Dead' altars to bring attention to …
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Av Jack Santino
Häftad, 2024
440 kr
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Public Performances offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes—the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque—this volume provides rich …
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Av Jack Santino
Inbunden, 2017
550 kr
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