Mardi Gras, gumbo, and zydeco : readings in Louisiana culture /

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The detectable identity of southern Louisiana's one-of-a-kind culture has been expressed in numerous descriptive phrases--"south of the South," "the northern tip of the Caribbean," "this folklore land." A strange, piquant, and savory mixture, it also has been liken...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gaudet, Marcia G., McDonald, James C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2003.
Subjects:
Popular culture > Louisiana.
Folklore > Louisiana.
Culture populaire > Louisiane.
Folklore > Louisiane.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
Civilization.
Folklore.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
Brauch
Volkskultur
Louisiana > Civilization.
Louisiana > Social life and customs.
Louisiane > Civilisation.
Louisiane > Mœurs et coutumes.
Louisiana.
Louisiana
Aufsatzsammlung.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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