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Turan, Kenneth.
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791.43079 21
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2002
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Zubiri, Nancy, 1959-
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305.89992073 22
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2006
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Cognizant Communication Corporation.
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2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
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Ray, R. Celeste.
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975.043 22
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2003
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This provocative collection draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to shed light on the role that public ceremonies play in affirming or debunking cultural identities associated with the South. W.J. Cash's 1941 observation that "there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them" is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its "lost cause" tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public ritualsâ??parades, cook-offs, kinship homecom-i.
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Pike, Sarah M., 1959-
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299 21
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2001
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Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking part in their ceremonies.
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Guss, David M.
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306.0987 21
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2000
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If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings.
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Kurashige, Lon, 1964-
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979.494004956 21
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2002
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Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular community over a long period of time.
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Taylor-Perry, Rosemarie.
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292.36 22
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2003
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Robertson, Jennifer Ellen.
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952 21
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1991
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Robertson, Jennifer Ellen.
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952 21
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1991
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Solomon, Norman, 1933-
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296 20
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1996
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Davison, Gary Marvin, 1951-
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951.249 21
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1998
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