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Encyclopedia of American folklife /
This fascinating encyclopedia explores the rich and varied cultural traditions of folklife in America -- from barn raisings to the Internet, tattoos, and Zydeco -- through expressions that include ritual, custom, crafts, architecture, food, clothing, and art.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Armonk, New York :
M.E. Sharpe,
2006.
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2014. |
| Edición: | [Enhanced Credo edition]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Adolescents
- Aesthetics
- African American Communities
- Alaska
- Allegheny Region
- Altars
- Amana
- American Samoa
- Amish, Nebraska
- Amish, Old Order
- Animals
- Appalachia
- Arab Communities
- Archives and Libraries
- Armenian Communities
- Art Environments
- Atlanta
- Atlas
- Automobiles
- Baltimore
- Banjo
- Baptists, Old Regular
- Barn Raising
- Barns
- Baskets and Basketry
- Basque Communities
- Belief
- Bikers
- Birth
- Blue Ridge
- Bluegrass Music
- Blues
- Body Modification
- Bodybuilders and Weightlifters
- Bosnian Communities
- Boston
- Boy Scouts
- Branding
- Brooklyn
- Buddhists
- Bulgarian Communities
- Cajun Communities
- Cape Cod
- Cape Verdean Communities
- Carnival
- Carolina, Down East
- Carpatho-Rusyn Communities
- Catholic Charismatics
- Catholics
- Chain Letters
- Charleston
- Chicago
- Chicano and Mexican Communities
- Childhood
- Children's Groups
- Chinatowns
- Chinese Communities
- Christmas
- Church of the Brethren
- Cincinnati
- Cleveland
- Coastal Carolina Plain Region
- Cockfighting
- Communal Societies
- Communication
- Community and Group
- Consumerism
- Context
- Courtship
- Cowboys
- Craft
- Creoles, Louisiana
- Croatian Communities
- Croatians, Louisiana
- Cuban Communities
- Cults and Rumor-Panics, Satanic
- Cultural Register
- Czech Communities
- Dance
- Dance, Liturgical
- Danish Communities
- Deaf Communities
- Death and Funerals
- Delmarva and the Eastern Shore Region
- Delta, Mississippi River
- Denver
- Des Moines
- Dialect
- Dialect Stories
- Dominican Communities
- Drama
- Dress and Costume
- Easter
- Eastern Orthodox Christians
- Education
- El Paso
- Environment
- Estonian Communities
- Ethnic and Immigrant Folklife
- Ethnography and Fieldwork.
- Family
- Fans, Automobile Racing
- Fans, Extreme Metal
- Fans, Heavy Metal
- Farmers
- Feminism
- Fetishes
- Filipino Communities
- Film and Video
- Finnish American Communities
- Fire Island
- Firefighters
- Fishing Communities
- Folk Art
- Folk Festivals
- Folk Music and Song
- Folk Society
- Folk Speech and Language
- Folklife and Folk Culture
- Folklife Organizations
- Folklore
- Folklorists
- Foodways
- Franco-American Communities
- Fraternal Organizations
- French Canadian Communities
- Function and Context
- Gamblers and Gambling
- Games and Toys
- Games, Drinking
- Gangs
- Gangs, Youth
- Gardens and Gardening
- Gay Communities
- Gay San Francisco
- Geography
- German Communities
- Germans, Great Plains
- Gestures
- Gospel Music
- Goths
- Gravemarkers
- Great Plains
- Great Plains Indians
- Greek Communities
- Grottoes
- Guam
- Gullah
- Gypsies (Romani)
- Hair
- Haitian Communities
- Halloween
- Hare Krishna
- Harlem
- Hasidim and Misnagidim (Haredim)
- Hawaiians, Native
- Healing and Medicine
- Healing, Faith
- Hillbilly
- Hindus
- Hip-Hop
- History and Heritage
- Hmong Communites
- Holidays
- Hospitals
- Houses
- Houston
- Humor
- Hungarian Communities
- Hunting
- Hutterites (Hutterian Brethren)
- Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge
- Internet
- Irish Communities
- Irish, Boston
- Irish, Chicago
- Italian Communities
- Italian Community, Detroit
- Japanese Communities
- Japantown
- Jewish Communities
- Jews, Crypto- and Protestant Millenialism
- Korean Communities
- Ku Klux Klan
- Landscape
- Lao Communities
- Las Vegas
- Latvian Communities
- Legends
- Little Egypt
- Little Havana
- Little League Baseball and Youth Sports Organizations
- Little Sweden
- Loggers, Maine
- Los Angeles
- Love Feast
- Lumbering
- Lutherans.
- Macedonian Communities
- Maine, Down East
- Märchen
- Mardi Gras
- Martial Artists
- Material Culture
- Medicine, Folk
- Memorial Day
- Memphis
- Men and Masculinity
- Mennonites
- Mennonites, Reformed
- Mennonites, Wenger
- Metal and Metalworkers
- Methodists
- Miami
- Middle Atlantic Region
- Midwest
- Migrant Workers and Hoboes
- Millennialists
- Milwaukee
- Miners, Anthracite
- Miners, Bituminous
- Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area
- Molokans
- Montagnard-Dega Communities
- Mormon Culture Region
- Mormon Fundamentalists
- Mormons
- Museums and Exhibitions
- Muslims
- N
- Names
- Narrative, Personal
- Nashville
- Nationalism
- Netherlands Dutch and Belgian Communities
- New England
- New Orleans
- New Year
- New York City
- Northern Appalachian Region (Catskills and Adirondacks)
- Northwest Coast
- Norwegian Communities
- Nuer Communities
- Nurses
- O
- Occupational Folklife
- Old German Baptist Brethren
- Old Order River Brethren
- Old-Age Communities
- Old-Time Music
- Oral and Folk History
- Organizations, Corporate and Work
- Organizations, Voluntary and Special-Interest
- Outsider Art
- Ozarks
- P
- Paper Arts
- Parades
- Pennsylvania Culture Region
- Pennsylvania German Communities
- Pentecostals
- Performance Approach And Dramatic Arts
- Philadelphia
- Photography
- Picnics
- Pittsburgh
- Place and Space
- Polish Communities
- Polka
- Popular Culture
- Portuguese-Speaking Communities
- Potlatch
- Pottery
- Powwowing
- Prisoners
- Proverbs and Sayings
- Psychobilly
- Psychology
- Public Folklife
- Puerto Rican Communities
- Punk
- Q
- Quakers
- Queens, Borough of
- Quilting
- R
- Railroaders
- Rangeley Lakes Region
- Recreational Vehicle Communities
- Region
- Religion
- Reunions
- Riddles and Riddling
- Rio Grande Border Region
- Rituals and Rites
- Rocky Mountain Cultural Region
- Rugs and Rug Making
- Russian Communities.
- Saddles and Saddlemaking
- Sailors
- Saint Louis
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Santa Fe
- Scottish Communities
- Senegalese Communities
- September 11th
- Serbian Communities
- Shakers
- Shenandoah Valley Region
- Showers, Wedding and Baby
- Shrines and Crosses, Roadside
- Shrines and Memorials, Spontaneous and Vernacular
- Sicilian Communities
- Sikhs
- Skateboarders
- Skinheads
- Slovak Communities
- Snake Handling Sects
- Soldiers
- South Asian Communities
- South, The
- Southeastern Indians
- Southwest
- Southwest Indians
- Spiritualists
- Sport Teams
- Steelworkers
- Stone
- Storytelling
- Straight Edge
- Students
- Suburbs
- Supernatural
- Swedish Communities
- Symbol and Structure
- Taxi Drivers
- Texas
- Text
- Thanksgiving
- Tibetans
- Toasts and Dozens
- Tradition and Culture
- Trial Lawyers
- Truckers
- Tulsa
- Twelve-Step Groups
- Ukrainian Communities
- Unions
- Urban Folklife
- Vietnamese Communities
- Visual Culture
- Voodoo and Santeria
- Washington, D.C.
- Weddings and Marriage
- West African Communities
- Wiccans
- Wiregrass Region
- Women
- Wood
- Wrestling, Professional
- Zydeco.