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Usable pasts: traditions and group expressions in North America

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dc.contributor.authorTuleja, Tad, editor
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:43:45Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:43:45Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractIn 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 by Anglos, the expressive forms of communication that engender and sustain a sense of community in an African American women's social club and among elderly Yiddish folksingers in Miami Beach, the incorporation of mass media images into the C & Ts (customs and traditions) of a Boy Scout troop, the changing meaning of their defining Exodus-like migration to Mormons, Newfoundlanders' appropriation through the rum-drinking ritual called the Schreech-In of outsiders' stereotypes, outsiders' imposition of the once-despised lobster as the emblem of Maine, the contest over Texas's heroic Alamo legend and its departures from historical fact, and how yellow ribbons were transformed from an image in a pop song to a national symbol of "resolve".--Provided by publisher.
dc.description.tableofcontentsThrough 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.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/87738
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subject.lcshMinorities -- United States -- Social life and customs
dc.subject.lcshMinorities -- Canada -- Social life and customs
dc.subject.lcshEthnology -- United States
dc.subject.lcshEthnology -- Canada
dc.titleUsable pasts: traditions and group expressions in North America
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