Mardi Gras, gumbo, and zydeco : readings in Louisiana culture / edited by Marcia Gaudet, James C. McDonald

Published:: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2003]
Copyright Date:: ©2003
Physical Description:: xv, 179 pages ; 21 cm
Additional Creators:: Gaudet, Marcia G. and McDonald, James C.

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Contents:

Mardi Gras and the media : who's fooling whom? / Barry Jean Ancelet -- Buffalo Bill and the Mardi Gras Indians / Michael P. Smith -- Every man a king : world view, social tension, and carnival in New Orleans / Frank De Caro and Tom Ireland -- Mardi Gras chase / Glen Pitre -- The New Orleans king cake in southwest Louisiana / Marcia Gaudet -- Christmas bonfires in south Louisiana : tradition and innovation / Marcia Gaudet -- The Creole tradition / Michael Tisserand -- Hidden nation : the Houmas speak / Barbara Sillery -- Some accounts of witch riding / Patricia K. Rickels -- Charlene Richard : folk veneration among the Cajuns / Marcia Gaudet -- Ôte voir ta sacré soutane : anti-clerical humor in French Louisiana / Barry Jean Ancelet -- The social and symbolic uses of ethnic/regional foodways : Cajuns and crawfish in south Louisiana / C. Paige Gutierrez -- Is it Cajun, or is it Creole? / Marcia Gaudet.

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ISBN:

1578065291 (alk. paper)
9781578065295 (alk. paper)
1578065305 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781578065301 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [154]-155) and index.

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