Celebrations The Complete Book Of American Holidays

Author : Robert J. Myers
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrations; the Complete Book of American Holidays written by Robert J. Myers and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1972 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.

Author : Jack Santino
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065163
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Around the Year written by Jack Santino and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Antoinette Broussard
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780806526546
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Celebrations and Holiday Traditions written by Antoinette Broussard and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling collection of recipes, style advice, and decorating ideas will help every family bring grace and passion to the holiday season.

Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691017211
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumer Rites written by Leigh Eric Schmidt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Barbara Klebanow
Publisher : PLA
ISBN 13 : 9780866471961
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Holidays written by Barbara Klebanow and published by PLA. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081472227X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We are what We Celebrate written by Amitai Etzioni and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Silvana Clark
Publisher : Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN 13 : 9780800758776
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Day a Holiday written by Silvana Clark and published by Fleming H. Revell Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this resource in hand, teachers and parents will never be without an activity to make the day unique and educational for their children.

Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195171549
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Year written by Anthony F. Aveni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day - these are but a handful of modern holidays descended from the red-letter days, seasonal celebrations we have invented and reinvented over more than five millennia to meet our changing human needs. When we explore their origins, the holidays begin to reflect not only who we are but also why, through oppressed by time and thwarted by the forces of nature, we never seem to lose the will to control the future.

Author : Ellen M. Litwicki
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344169
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920 written by Ellen M. Litwicki and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the revered Memorial Day to the forgotten Lasties Day, America's Public Holidays is a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the civic culture of America has been fashioned. By analyzing how holidays became a forum for expressing patriotism, how public tradition has been invented, and how the definition of America itself was changed, Ellen Litwicki tells the intriguing story of the elite effort to create new holidays and the variety of responses from ordinary Americans.

Author : Valerie Menard
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569246467
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Latino Holiday Book written by Valerie Menard and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2000-07-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Latino celebrations, addressing religious and social history, typical customs, special foods and activities. Recipes and instructions provided for making the foods and crafts that represent the traditions.