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Pole raising and speech making : modalities of Swedish-American summer celebration /

"Focused on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration. Combines folklore and history, to explore various ways Midsummer-related celebrations blended with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
Colección:Ritual, festival, and celebration ; volume 3
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Spring-to-Summer Celebration: Abundance and Redundancy; 2. Midsummer in the Rockies; 3. A Crowded Celebrations Calendar; 4. Speaking and Writing Celebration; 5. Midsummer Blendings of Sacred and Secular; 6. On Swedish Soil in Grove and Arbor: Private Celebrations in a Middle Landscape; 7. Uneasy Scandinavianism in the Spring-Summer Holidays; 8. Shifts in Spring-Summer Celebration: Modes, Media, and Messages; References; About the Author; Index.