Usable pasts : traditions and group expressions in North America /
"In Usable Pasts, fourteen authors examine the manipulation of traditional expressions among a variety of groups from the United States and Canada: the development of a pictorial style by Navajo weavers in response to traders, Mexican American responses to the appropriation of traditional foods...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
1997.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Through Navajo eyes: pictorial weavings from Spider Woman's loom / Nancy Peake
- Appropriation and counterhegemony in south Texas: food slurs, offal meats, and blood / Mario Montano
- Dyngus Day in Polish American communities / Deborah Anders Silverman
- "May the work I've done speak for me": African American women as speech community / Jerrilyn McGregory
- "Giving" of Yiddish folksongs as a cultural resource / Joel Saxe
- Newell's paradox redux / Jay Mechling
- Historical narrative in the martial arts: a case study / Thomas A. Green
- Pioneers and recapitulation in Mormon popular historical expression / Eric A. Eliason
- "Up here, we never see the sun": homeplace and crime in urban Appalachian narratives / John R. Williams
- Booze, ritual, and the invention of tradition: the phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In / Pat Byrne
- Shell games in vacationland: Homarus Americanus and the state of Maine / George H. Lewis
- How Texans remember the Alamo / Sylvia Ann Grider
- "Kamell Dung": a challenge to Canada's national icon / Robert M. MacGregor
- Closing the circle: yellow ribbons and the redemption of the past / Tad Tuleja.


