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Usable Pasts [electronic resource] : Traditions and Group Expressions in North America / edited by Tad Tuleja

Published
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 335 pages :) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Tuleja, Tad, 1944- and Project Muse
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Making Ourselves Up: On the Manipulation of Tradition in Small Groups / Tad Tuleja -- 1.Through Navajo Eyes: Pictorial Weavings from Spider Woman's Loom / Nancy Peake -- 2.Appropriation and Counterhegemony in South Texas: Food Slurs, Offal Meats, and Blood / Mario Montano -- 3.Dyngus Day in Polish American Communities / Deborah Anders Silverman -- 4."May the Work I've Done Speak for Me": African American Women as Speech Community / Jerrilyn McGregory -- 5.The "Giving" of Yiddish Folksongs as a Cultural Resource / Joel Saxe -- 6.Newell's Paradox Redux / Jay Mechling -- 7.Historical Narrative in the Martial Arts: A Case Study / Thomas A. Green -- 8.Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression / Eric A. Eliason -- 9."Up Here, We Never See the Sun": Homeplace and Crime in Urban Appalachian Narratives / John R. Williams -- 10.Booze, Ritual, and the Invention of Tradition: The Phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In / Pat Byrne -- 11.Shell Games in Vacationland: Homarus Americanus and the State of Maine / George H. Lewis -- 12.How Texans Remember the Alamo / Sylvia Ann Grider -- 13."Kamell Dung": A Challenge to Canada's National Icon / Robert M. MacGregor -- 14.Closing the Circle: Yellow Ribbons and the Redemption of the Past / Tad Tuleja.
Summary
"An eclectic collection of essays on creative use, manipulation, and "invention" of traditions by groups of many sizes and types: ethnic, regional, religious, organizational, and national." --Book Jacket.
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ISBN
9780874213348
0874212251 (cloth)
087421226X (paper)
9780874212266
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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