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"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
Temas:
Festivals > Rocky Mountains Region.
Holidays > Rocky Mountains region.
Folklore > Rocky Mountains.
Swedish Americans > Rocky Mountains region > Social life and customs.
Folklore > Rocheuses, Montagnes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Holidays (non-religious)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Festivals
Folklore
Holidays
Manners and customs
Swedish Americans > Social life and customs
Rocky Mountains Region > Social life and customs.
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains Region
West United States
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.

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