The Festive State

Author : David M. Guss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924864
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Festive State written by David M. Guss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Guss investigates "the ideology of tradition," combining four case studies in a radical multisite ethnography to demonstrate how in each instance concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and nationhood are challenged and redefined. In a narrative as colorful as the events themselves, Guss presents the Afro-Venezuelan celebration of San Juan, the "neo-Indian" Day of the Monkey, the mestizo ritual of Tamunangue, and the cultural policies and products of a British multinational tobacco corporation. All these illustrate the remarkable fluidity of festive behavior as well as its importance in articulating different cultural interests.

Author : William L. Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holidays on Display written by William L. Bird and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people the world over, the annual visit to a department store to view the festive window displays and visit Santa in his winter wonderland is a treasured holiday tradition. In America, the Thanksgiving holiday is almost inconceivable without Macy's annual parade. But how did holiday traditions like this begin? Who are the behind-the-scenes magicians that conjure up this unique blend of imagination, showmanship, and salesmanship? Holidays on Display is a comprehensive overview of the art and industry of the holiday display. Author William L. Bird, Jr., traces its evolution as holiday decorations moved from shop windows to building exteriors and out into the street in the form of parade floats. In this fascinating and colorful history we are introduced to turn-of-the-century "trimmers" hiredby merchants to maintain product displays, and we marvel as advances in lighting, animation, and miniaturization lead to the incredible feats of creative self-expression practiced by today's window artists. Packed with rarely seen photographs and ephemera, Holidays on Display makes it easy to see why we have such lasting emotional attachments to animated Christmas windows, passing parades, and the ambient glow of holiday lights.

Author : Augusto Ferraiuolo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438428146
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End written by Augusto Ferraiuolo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.

Author : John Abbott Nez
Publisher : Twelve Days of Christmas in Am
ISBN 13 : 9781454927952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twelve Days of Christmas in Washington written by John Abbott Nez and published by Twelve Days of Christmas in Am. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cumulative rhyme based on "The Twelve Days of Christmas," Max receives gifts from his cousin related to the history, geography, animals, and interesting sites of Washington. Includes facts about Washington.

Author : Neeladri Bhattacharya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108753140
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape, Culture, and Belonging written by Neeladri Bhattacharya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue records, survey maps to explorers' diaries, and missionary papers to police files. They question the givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes by which the people of the region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes whereby the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented, politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive and the modern, and the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.

Author : Patrick A. Desplat
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383941945X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prayer in the City written by Patrick A. Desplat and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as »sacred«. Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices and urban everyday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributions examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach which has been widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences.

Author : James Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logs for the Christmas fire, by J. Harris, H. J. Hatch, and J. F. T. Wiseman written by James Harris and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Harris (Rector of Paglesham, Essex.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logs for the Christmas Fire. A Selection of Tales ... in Prose and Verse, Riddles, Charades ... Jokes, &c written by James Harris (Rector of Paglesham, Essex.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice B. McGinty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1499814119
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feasts and Festivals Around the World: From Lunar New Year to Christmas written by Alice B. McGinty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the celebrations and feasts of twelve countries and cultures from around the world! From South Korea to Nigeria to the USA, come celebrate festivals throughout the year! People around the world are celebrating. In Australia, it's Christmas in summer with barbecues on the beach. In Thailand, they're celebrating Songkran, the famous Buddhist water festival. Rhyming text and graphic illustrations pair perfectly and invite young readers to explore the world through mesmerizing festivals. A stunning companion to Pancakes to Parathas: Breakfast Around the World!

Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 : 9780002179683
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas in America written by David Cohen and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captioned photographs depict Christmas time throughout the United States.